Nocturne with Taliyah
How to Synergize Nocturne and Taliyah
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Nocturne Taliyah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Nocturne Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Taliyah, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Taliyah provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Taliyah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taliyah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taliyah.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Taliyah on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Taliyah does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Taliyah
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Taliyah is a decent ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, she increases their win rate by 2.3% to 54.1%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Nocturne and Taliyah that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Taliyah has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you need to be cautious when finding Taliyah teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Nocturne and Taliyah together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Taliyah teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Nocturne and Taliyah synergy build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 54.1% helping carry Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nocturne and Taliyah pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Taliyah with Nocturne are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.