Nocturne with Sylas
How to Synergize Nocturne and Sylas
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Nocturne Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Nocturne Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Sylas, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Sylas does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Sylas on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Sylas
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best synergy for Nocturne that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 52.1%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nocturne and Sylas that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be careful when lining up Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nocturne and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your team enough utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 synergize with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Nocturne and Sylas synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Serylda's Grudge. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing 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 runes players picked for Nocturne and Sylas pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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