Nocturne with Orianna
How to Synergize Nocturne and Orianna
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Nocturne Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Nocturne Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Orianna helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Orianna, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Orianna supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Orianna on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Orianna
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Orianna is a relatively poor ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, she lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 49.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Nocturne and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be very careful when enlisting Orianna teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Orianna together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne and Orianna synergy build include Death's Dance, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Orianna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 builds players picked for Nocturne and Orianna pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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