Nocturne with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Nocturne and Lee Sin
based on 466 Nocturne with Lee Sin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Lee Sin Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Nocturne Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Nocturne Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lee Sin helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Lee Sin, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Lee Sin supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Lee Sin
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Nocturne better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a below average companion for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Nocturne and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be cautious when lining up Lee Sin allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Lee Sin together, you will not be giving your side very much AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nocturne
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Nocturne Players
How We Calculated Our Nocturne Lee Sin Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to pair well with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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 runes that we analyzed for Nocturne and Lee Sin pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Lee Sin with Nocturne are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.