Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Lissandra perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra is an ally to Nocturne, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nocturne provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Nocturne on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Lissandra that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Nocturne is a decent companion for Lissandra. By being on the same side as Lissandra, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 51.3%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Lissandra and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when lining up Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Lissandra players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lissandra and Nocturne together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Lissandra and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nocturne with Lissandra are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.