Nocturne with Qiyana
How to Synergize Nocturne and Qiyana
based on 1,873 Nocturne with Qiyana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Qiyana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Qiyana
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Qiyana
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.
Nocturne Qiyana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Qiyana as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Qiyana helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Qiyana, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Qiyana does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Qiyana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Qiyana.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Qiyana on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Qiyana does a poor job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Qiyana?
There is no top companion for Nocturne that will always be his best teammate. However, Qiyana is a very bad ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -4.4% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Nocturne and Qiyana that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Qiyana has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you must be cautious when lining up Qiyana teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Nocturne players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Qiyana together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Qiyana ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Nocturne to work well with Qiyana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Nocturne and Qiyana synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Qiyana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 runes that we analyzed for Nocturne and Qiyana pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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