Nocturne with Rakan
How to Synergize Nocturne and Rakan
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Nocturne Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Nocturne Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan 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 plays on the same team as Rakan, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal companion for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 52.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Nocturne and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be very careful when finding Rakan comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nocturne players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Nocturne and Rakan synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rakan than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 52.0% helping carry Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Nocturne players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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