Xerath with Nocturne
How to Synergize Xerath and Nocturne
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Xerath Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Nocturne
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Xerath perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath is paired with Nocturne, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Xerath in teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Nocturne
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal companion for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Nocturne is a decent ally for Xerath. By playing on the same side as Xerath, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 53.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Xerath and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be careful when enlisting Nocturne allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xerath and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xerath in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Xerath and Nocturne synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Xerath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 53.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Xerath are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.