Nocturne with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Nocturne and Blitzcrank
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Nocturne Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Nocturne Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Blitzcrank helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Blitzcrank, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Blitzcrank provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Blitzcrank
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a very typical companion for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nocturne and Blitzcrank that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Blitzcrank comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to pair well with Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Nocturne and Blitzcrank synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 Nocturne and Blitzcrank pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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