Nocturne with Aphelios
How to Synergize Nocturne and Aphelios
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Nocturne Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Nocturne Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Aphelios
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Nocturne and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Aphelios allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Aphelios together, you will not be granting your side a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Nocturne and Aphelios synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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