Nocturne with Graves
How to Synergize Nocturne and Graves
based on 550 Nocturne with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Graves Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Graves
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Nocturne Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Graves, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Graves does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Graves on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Graves
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Graves is a terrible teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 48.5%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nocturne and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Nocturne and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to synergize with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Nocturne and Graves synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nocturne and Graves pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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