Nocturne with Lucian
How to Synergize Nocturne and Lucian
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Nocturne Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Nocturne Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Lucian, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Lucian does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Lucian on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Lucian does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no one best ally for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Lucian is a below average ally for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Nocturne and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when lining up Lucian teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Lucian together, you will not be providing your side much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to work well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Nocturne and Lucian synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Death's Dance. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lucian with Nocturne are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.