Nocturne with Kindred
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kindred
based on 298 Nocturne with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Nocturne Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Kindred, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Kindred helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Kindred on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kindred
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no one best ally for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Kindred is a terrible ally for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, they lowers their win rate by -4.5% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Nocturne and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kindred teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Kindred together, you may not be providing your team much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kindred ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne and Kindred synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kindred than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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