Nocturne with Kayn
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kayn
based on 351 Nocturne with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Nocturne Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kayn helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Kayn, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kayn supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Kayn on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kayn does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kayn
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect ally for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Kayn is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 51.3%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nocturne and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you must be very careful when arranging Kayn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Nocturne players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Kayn together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 work well with Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Nocturne and Kayn synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Kayn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nocturne players 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 rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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