Nocturne with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nocturne and Malzahar
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Nocturne Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Nocturne Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Malzahar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a good ally for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 52.8%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Nocturne and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be very careful when arranging Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much tankyness. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Nocturne and Malzahar synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.8% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Nocturne players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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