Nocturne with Leona
How to Synergize Nocturne and Leona
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Nocturne Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Leona
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Nocturne Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Leona, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Leona helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Leona.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Leona on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Leona is a pretty good companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same side as Nocturne, she raises their win rate by 1.7% to 53.5%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Nocturne and Leona that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be cautious when lining up Leona teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Leona together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to synergize with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Nocturne and Leona synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 53.5% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
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