Nocturne with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Nocturne and LeBlanc
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Nocturne LeBlanc Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Nocturne LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that LeBlanc helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as LeBlanc, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that LeBlanc provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with LeBlanc 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 LeBlanc.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with LeBlanc on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that LeBlanc does a poor job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and LeBlanc
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, LeBlanc is a very bad ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -3.5% to 48.3%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Nocturne and LeBlanc that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
LeBlanc has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be very careful when enlisting LeBlanc allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and LeBlanc together, you will not be giving your team very much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your LeBlanc ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Nocturne and LeBlanc synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with LeBlanc than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside LeBlanc with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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