Nocturne with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Nocturne and Caitlyn
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Nocturne Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Nocturne Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Caitlyn, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Caitlyn on the same team, 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 Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Caitlyn
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 51.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Nocturne and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when finding Caitlyn comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nocturne and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to pair well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Nocturne and Caitlyn synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Experimental Hexplate. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Caitlyn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.4% helping carry Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Ultimate Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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