Nocturne with Gragas
How to Synergize Nocturne and Gragas
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Nocturne Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Nocturne Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Nocturne perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Gragas, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gragas provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Gragas 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 Gragas.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Gragas
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Gragas is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 51.3%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be cautious when enlisting Gragas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Gragas together, you will not be granting your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Nocturne and Gragas synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Nocturne players 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 rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gragas with Nocturne are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.