Nunu & Willump with Nocturne
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Nocturne
based on 378 Nunu & Willump with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Nocturne
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
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.
Nunu & Willump Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nunu & Willump sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Nocturne, he sees a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Nocturne provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Nocturne 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 synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Nocturne
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal companion for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Nocturne is a below average companion for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 45.0%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Nunu & Willump and Nocturne that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nunu & Willump players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to pair well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Nunu & Willump and Nocturne synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 45.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.0% win rate overall.
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