Kindred with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kindred and Nocturne
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Kindred Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Nocturne
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their 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 Kindred perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred is an ally to Nocturne, they observes a barely noticable drop in their full damage output. This may signal that Nocturne does not provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Kindred plays with Nocturne on the same side, they on average takes much less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Kindred in teamfights.
Synergies between Kindred and Nocturne
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kindred that will always be their ideal synergy. However, Nocturne is a very typical companion for Kindred. By being on the same side as Kindred, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 47.3%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Kindred and Nocturne that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Kindred players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kindred and Nocturne together, you probably will not be giving your side much magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kindred to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Kindred and Nocturne synergy build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and The Collector. When Kindred incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 47.3% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Kindred are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.