Graves with Nocturne
How to Synergize Graves and Nocturne
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Graves Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Graves with Nocturne
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Nocturne, he sees a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with 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 synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect ally for Graves that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a below average teammate for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Graves and Nocturne that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be cautious when enlisting Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your team enough support. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Graves and Nocturne synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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