Nocturne with Illaoi
How to Synergize Nocturne and Illaoi
based on 3,872 Nocturne with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Nocturne Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Illaoi, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Illaoi does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Illaoi on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Illaoi
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no perfect companion for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a not very good teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -1.8% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nocturne and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your team very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Nocturne and Illaoi synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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