Nocturne with Kassadin
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kassadin
based on 2,784 Nocturne with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Nocturne Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Kassadin, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kassadin does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Kassadin on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kassadin
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Nocturne that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 52.4%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Kassadin that results in them performing better together than alone.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be very careful when arranging Kassadin allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nocturne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nocturne and Kassadin together, you may not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Nocturne and Kassadin synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kassadin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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