Nocturne with Skarner
How to Synergize Nocturne and Skarner
based on 82 Nocturne with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Nocturne Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Skarner, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Skarner supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Skarner
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top ally for Nocturne that will always be his best synergy. However, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he lowers their win rate by -9.1% to 42.7%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Nocturne and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be cautious when enlisting Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nocturne and Skarner synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 42.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nocturne and Skarner pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.7% win rate overall.
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