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.
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
The Nocturne Cassiopeia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cassiopeia, 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 Cassiopeia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cassiopeia helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Cassiopeia, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Cassiopeia helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Cassiopeia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cassiopeia.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Cassiopeia on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Cassiopeia does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Cassiopeia is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, she raises their win rate by 0.6% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Nocturne and Cassiopeia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Cassiopeia has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be cautious when lining up Cassiopeia teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Nocturne players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Cassiopeia together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Cassiopeia ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nocturne in order to work well with Cassiopeia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Nocturne and Cassiopeia synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Cassiopeia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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