Nocturne with Brand
How to Synergize Nocturne and Brand
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Nocturne Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Brand
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Nocturne Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Brand, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Brand provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Brand on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Brand
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal companion for Nocturne that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Brand is a good ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 54.0%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Nocturne and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be cautious when lining up Brand comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Nocturne players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nocturne and Brand together, you may not be granting your team very much engage potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to pair well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Nocturne and Brand synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 54.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating 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 chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Brand with Nocturne are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.