Nocturne with Zoe
How to Synergize Nocturne and Zoe
based on 2,751 Nocturne with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Nocturne Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zoe helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Zoe, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Zoe doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Zoe on the same team, 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 with Zoe.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Zoe on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Zoe
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no ideal ally for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Zoe is a terrible teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -4.4% to 47.4%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Nocturne and Zoe that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zoe has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Zoe together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 in order to work well with Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Nocturne and Zoe synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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