Nocturne with Zac
How to Synergize Nocturne and Zac
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Nocturne Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Zac
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Nocturne Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zac helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Zac, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zac supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zac.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Zac on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Zac does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Zac
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Zac?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Zac is a good teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 53.8%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Nocturne and Zac that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Zac has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when arranging Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Zac together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to pair well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Nocturne and Zac synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zac than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 53.8% when playing alongside Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.8% winrate overall.
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