Nocturne with Bard
How to Synergize Nocturne and Bard
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Nocturne Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Bard
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Nocturne Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Bard, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Bard helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Bard 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 Bard.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Bard on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a pretty good teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 53.6%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Nocturne and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Nocturne and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your side much magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Nocturne and Bard synergy build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 53.6% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nocturne players should take 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 rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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