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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Nocturne Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nocturne sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Aatrox, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Aatrox does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aatrox. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Aatrox on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 52.6%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Nocturne and Aatrox that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Aatrox comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nocturne players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Nocturne and Aatrox together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to synergize with Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Nocturne and Aatrox synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Aatrox than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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