Nocturne with Darius
How to Synergize Nocturne and Darius
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Nocturne Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Darius
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Nocturne Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Darius, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Darius doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Darius 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 synergisticly with Darius.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Darius on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Darius
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Darius?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Darius is a relatively poor teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 50.4%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Nocturne and Darius that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Darius comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Nocturne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Darius together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Darius teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Nocturne and Darius synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Darius than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Darius with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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