Nocturne with Swain
How to Synergize Nocturne and Swain
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Nocturne Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Swain
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Nocturne Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Swain, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Swain does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Swain on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Swain
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Swain is a decent companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 54.0%. This proves that there is a good bond between Nocturne and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Swain together, you may not be providing your side much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Nocturne and Swain synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 54.0% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Nocturne players 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 runes players picked for Nocturne and Swain pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Swain with Nocturne are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.