Nocturne with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kog'Maw
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Nocturne Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Nocturne Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kog'Maw helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kog'Maw
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 52.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Nocturne and Kog'Maw that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Kog'Maw comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nocturne players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nocturne and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be providing your team much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to work well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Nocturne and Kog'Maw synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Nocturne used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 52.4% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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