Nocturne with Riven
How to Synergize Nocturne and Riven
based on 5,587 Nocturne with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Riven
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Nocturne Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Riven on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Riven
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will always be his top teammate. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 51.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nocturne and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be cautious when lining up Riven teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Nocturne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nocturne and Riven together, you may not be providing your team very much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nocturne and Riven synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 we have analyed for Nocturne and Riven pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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