Nocturne with Zilean
How to Synergize Nocturne and Zilean
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Nocturne Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Nocturne Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean 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 paired with Zilean, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Zilean
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Zilean is a relatively poor teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 50.4%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nocturne and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players need to be cautious when arranging Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Nocturne players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Nocturne and Zilean together, you may not be providing your team very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Nocturne and Zilean synergy build include Death's Dance, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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