Nocturne with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Nocturne and Xin Zhao
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Nocturne Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Nocturne Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Xin Zhao 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 alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Xin Zhao
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no perfect ally for Nocturne that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 52.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Nocturne and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nocturne and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your team enough crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Nocturne and Xin Zhao synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
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