Nocturne with Briar
How to Synergize Nocturne and Briar
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Nocturne Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Briar
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Briar
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.
Nocturne Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Briar, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Briar doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Briar on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Briar is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, they increases their win rate by 0.5% to 52.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Nocturne and Briar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be careful when finding Briar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Briar together, you will not be providing your side much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to synergize with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Nocturne and Briar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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 runes players picked for Nocturne and Briar pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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