Nocturne with Naafiri
How to Synergize Nocturne and Naafiri
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Nocturne Naafiri Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Nocturne Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Naafiri, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Naafiri does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Naafiri on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Naafiri
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Naafiri is a not very good teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, they decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Nocturne and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Naafiri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Nocturne and Naafiri together, you may not be giving your side a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne to work well with Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nocturne and Naafiri synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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