Leona with Nocturne
How to Synergize Leona and Nocturne
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Leona Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Leona with Nocturne
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her 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 Leona perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Nocturne, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change could signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Nocturne on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Nocturne is a decent ally for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 53.5%. This proves that there is a good bond between Leona and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be cautious when finding Nocturne teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Leona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Leona and Nocturne synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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