Nocturne with Shen
How to Synergize Nocturne and Shen
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Nocturne Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Shen
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Nocturne Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Shen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Shen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Shen is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nocturne and Shen that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Nocturne players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Nocturne and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Nocturne and Shen synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.8% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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