Nocturne with Alistar
How to Synergize Nocturne and Alistar
based on 3,240 Nocturne with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Nocturne Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nocturne sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Alistar, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Alistar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Alistar
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Alistar is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 51.1%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Nocturne and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be cautious when lining up Alistar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nocturne players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Alistar together, you will not be providing your side a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Nocturne and Alistar synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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