Nocturne with Varus
How to Synergize Nocturne and Varus
based on 8,260 Nocturne with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Varus Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Varus
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Nocturne Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Varus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Varus supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Varus on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Varus
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Varus?
There is no ideal ally for Nocturne that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Varus is a below average teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Nocturne and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Nocturne and Varus together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nocturne and Varus synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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