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.
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a very large drop 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 Fiddlesticks perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks is an ally to Nocturne, he sees a noticable increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Nocturne provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Fiddlesticks plays with Nocturne on the same side, he often receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Fiddlesticks in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Fiddlesticks that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a superb teammate for Fiddlesticks. By being on the same side as Fiddlesticks, he improves their win rate by 5.3% to 54.3%. This signals that there is a strong strategic relationship between Fiddlesticks and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Fiddlesticks. That means Fiddlesticks players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Fiddlesticks and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your other allies much cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Fiddlesticks and Nocturne synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 54.3% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Fiddlesticks players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Fiddlesticks and Nocturne pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Fiddlesticks are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu above.