Nocturne with Xayah
How to Synergize Nocturne and Xayah
based on 3,133 Nocturne with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Nocturne Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xayah helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Xayah, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Xayah supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Xayah 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 Xayah.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Xayah on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Xayah
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Xayah is a very bad companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, she lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Nocturne and Xayah that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be careful when lining up Xayah allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Xayah together, you probably will not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, 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 truly master Nocturne to synergize with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Nocturne and Xayah synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Nocturne players should use 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 runes that we analyzed for Nocturne and Xayah pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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