Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Irelia perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is paired with Nocturne, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Nocturne on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Irelia in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Irelia that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a good ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Irelia and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Irelia players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Irelia and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other allies very much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Irelia and Nocturne synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Irelia and Nocturne pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nocturne with Irelia are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.