Nocturne with Nilah
How to Synergize Nocturne and Nilah
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Nocturne Nilah Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Nilah
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.
Nocturne Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Nilah, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Nilah does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Nilah 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 with Nilah.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Nilah on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Nilah is a superb ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, they increases their win rate by 3.7% to 55.5%. This shows that there is a very real bond between Nocturne and Nilah that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Nilah teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Nilah together, you may not be granting your side very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to work well with Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Nocturne and Nilah synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nilah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 55.5% helping carry Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.5% win rate overall.
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