Nocturne with Annie
How to Synergize Nocturne and Annie
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Nocturne Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Annie
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Annie
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.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Nocturne Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Annie, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Annie supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Annie on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Annie
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Annie is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, she improves their win rate by 0.5% to 52.3%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Annie that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be careful when lining up Annie allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Nocturne and Annie synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Annie than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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