Xin Zhao with Nocturne
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Nocturne
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Xin Zhao Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Nocturne
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nocturne helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Nocturne, he observes a massive increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Nocturne helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Nocturne on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top synergy for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a good companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 52.9%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Xin Zhao and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be very careful when arranging Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xin Zhao and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Xin Zhao in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Xin Zhao and Nocturne synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Xin Zhao players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Xin Zhao and Nocturne pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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