Nocturne with Garen
How to Synergize Nocturne and Garen
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Nocturne Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Garen
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Nocturne Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Garen, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Garen does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Garen 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 alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Garen
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Garen is a not very good companion for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nocturne and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be very careful when finding Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Garen together, you may not be giving your team very much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Nocturne and Garen synergy build include Black Cleaver, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use 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 runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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