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.
The Nocturne Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zeri helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Zeri, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Zeri does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Zeri 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 alongside Zeri.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Zeri on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zeri does a poor job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Nocturne that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Zeri is a very bad companion for Nocturne. By being on the same team as Nocturne, they lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Nocturne and Zeri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zeri has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Zeri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Zeri together, you will not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zeri ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to synergize with Zeri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Nocturne and Zeri synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zeri than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Zeri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zeri with Nocturne are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.