Nocturne with Yorick
How to Synergize Nocturne and Yorick
based on 4,740 Nocturne with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Nocturne Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Yorick, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Yorick does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yorick.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Yorick on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Yorick
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Yorick is a good companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 52.8%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nocturne and Yorick that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you must be cautious when arranging Yorick comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nocturne and Yorick together, you probably will not be granting your team very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Nocturne and Yorick synergy build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nocturne players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nocturne and Yorick pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Yorick with Nocturne are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.