Amumu with Nocturne
How to Synergize Amumu and Nocturne
based on 744 Amumu with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Nocturne
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu 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 worsening shows that Nocturne helps Amumu perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Nocturne, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nocturne doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Amumu 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 mean that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top synergy for Amumu that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Nocturne is a decent companion for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Amumu and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players should be very careful when finding Nocturne allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Amumu players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Amumu to work well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Amumu and Nocturne synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Amumu used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other common builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Amumu and Nocturne pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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