Nocturne with Irelia
How to Synergize Nocturne and Irelia
based on 4,825 Nocturne with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Nocturne Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Irelia, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Irelia does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Irelia on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Irelia
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nocturne that will always be his top ally. However, Irelia is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Nocturne and Irelia that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be very careful when lining up Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nocturne and Irelia together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 in order to pair well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Nocturne and Irelia synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing 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 chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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