Nocturne with Volibear
How to Synergize Nocturne and Volibear
based on 3,369 Nocturne with Volibear pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Volibear
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.
Nocturne Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Volibear helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Volibear, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Volibear doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Volibear 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 alongside Volibear.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Volibear on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Volibear
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Volibear is a relatively poor companion for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Nocturne and Volibear that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be very careful when lining up Volibear comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nocturne and Volibear together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Volibear ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to pair well with Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Nocturne and Volibear synergy build include Death's Dance, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Volibear than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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