Nasus with Nocturne
How to Synergize Nasus and Nocturne
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Nasus Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Nocturne
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Nasus Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nocturne helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Nocturne, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nocturne helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Nocturne on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Nocturne is a pretty good ally for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 51.6%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Nasus and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be careful when enlisting Nocturne teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your team very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Nasus and Nocturne synergy build include Thornmail, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nasus and Nocturne pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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