Riven with Nocturne
How to Synergize Riven and Nocturne
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Riven Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nocturne
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Riven in LoL
The Riven 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, Riven sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Nocturne, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven 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 with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Nocturne on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Nocturne is a decent teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a good bond between Riven and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven and Nocturne synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.2% helping carry Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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