Nocturne with Soraka
How to Synergize Nocturne and Soraka
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Nocturne Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Nocturne Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Soraka, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Soraka supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Soraka 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 Soraka.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Soraka on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Soraka
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no top synergy for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Soraka is a very typical companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 51.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Soraka that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Soraka teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Nocturne and Soraka together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Nocturne and Soraka synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Soraka with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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