Nocturne with Vladimir
How to Synergize Nocturne and Vladimir
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Nocturne Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Nocturne Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Vladimir, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vladimir does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Vladimir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Vladimir on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Vladimir
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will always be his best ally. However, Vladimir is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Nocturne and Vladimir that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when finding Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Vladimir together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to work well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Nocturne and Vladimir synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Vladimir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 rune sets players chose for Nocturne and Vladimir pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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