Nocturne with Sona
How to Synergize Nocturne and Sona
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Nocturne Sona Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Sona
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Nocturne Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Sona, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Sona does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Sona on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sona does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Sona
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Sona is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Nocturne and Sona that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nocturne players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Nocturne and Sona together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 in order to pair well with Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Nocturne and Sona synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Sona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 rune sets players used for Nocturne and Sona pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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