Nocturne with Poppy
How to Synergize Nocturne and Poppy
based on 1,632 Nocturne with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Nocturne Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Poppy helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Poppy, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Poppy supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Poppy does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Poppy
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no one best synergy for Nocturne that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Poppy is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Poppy that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be careful when arranging Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Poppy together, you may not be providing your team very much magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Nocturne Players
How We Calculated Our Nocturne Poppy Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to work well with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Nocturne and Poppy synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Poppy than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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