Nocturne with Lissandra
How to Synergize Nocturne and Lissandra
based on 2,692 Nocturne with Lissandra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Lissandra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Lissandra
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 Lissandra Will Play
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Nocturne Lissandra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lissandra as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lissandra helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Lissandra, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Lissandra supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lissandra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lissandra.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Lissandra on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Lissandra
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no one best companion for Nocturne that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Lissandra is a very typical companion for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 51.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Nocturne and Lissandra that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lissandra has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you must be careful when lining up Lissandra comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Lissandra together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Lissandra teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Nocturne and Lissandra synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Lissandra than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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