Nocturne with Pyke
How to Synergize Nocturne and Pyke
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Nocturne Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Nocturne Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pyke helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Pyke, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Pyke does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Pyke 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 alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Pyke on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Pyke
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no perfect ally for Nocturne that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a relatively poor teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Nocturne and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be careful when lining up Pyke allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Pyke together, you will not be giving your side very much AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to work well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nocturne and Pyke synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Pyke with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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