Poppy with Nocturne
How to Synergize Poppy and Nocturne
based on 1,632 Poppy with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Nocturne
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Poppy perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Nocturne, she observes a noticable increase in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Nocturne on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Nocturne
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Poppy that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a decent companion for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Poppy and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be cautious when finding Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Poppy and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your team much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra 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 most important items to include in your Poppy and Nocturne synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Poppy players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nocturne with Poppy are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.