Vel'Koz with Nocturne
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Nocturne
based on 4,512 Vel'Koz with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Nocturne
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Nocturne, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Nocturne on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Nocturne
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vel'Koz that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a good companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 52.7%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Vel'Koz and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. 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 require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your team a lot of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Vel'Koz in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Vel'Koz and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 52.7% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Ghost Poro, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Vel'Koz and Nocturne pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nocturne with Vel'Koz are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.