Nocturne with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Nocturne and Vel'Koz
based on 4,512 Nocturne with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Nocturne Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Vel'Koz, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Vel'Koz
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Nocturne and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nocturne and Vel'Koz synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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