Shaco with Nocturne
How to Synergize Shaco and Nocturne
based on 2,298 Shaco with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Nocturne
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Shaco perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Nocturne, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Nocturne
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top champion pairing for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a good companion for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 51.3%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Shaco and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Shaco players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Shaco and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Shaco and Nocturne synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Shaco players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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