Nocturne with Zed
How to Synergize Nocturne and Zed
based on 5,466 Nocturne with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Nocturne Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Zed, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zed does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Zed
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Zed is a very bad ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -3.4% to 48.4%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nocturne and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Zed teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nocturne players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Zed together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne and Zed synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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