Nocturne with Maokai
How to Synergize Nocturne and Maokai
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Nocturne Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Nocturne Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Maokai, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Maokai
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top companion for Nocturne that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, he raises their win rate by 3.2% to 55.0%. This signals that there is a strong bond between Nocturne and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be very careful when arranging Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Nocturne and Maokai synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 55.0% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Nocturne players 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 combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.0% win rate overall.
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