Nocturne with Yasuo
How to Synergize Nocturne and Yasuo
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Nocturne Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Nocturne Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yasuo helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Yasuo, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Yasuo does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Yasuo on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Yasuo
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Yasuo is a relatively poor companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Nocturne and Yasuo that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you must be cautious when finding Yasuo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Yasuo together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Yasuo teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 work well with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Nocturne and Yasuo synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Yasuo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nocturne and Yasuo pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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