Olaf with Nocturne
How to Synergize Olaf and Nocturne
based on 1,535 Olaf with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Nocturne
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
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.
Olaf Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nocturne helps Olaf perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Olaf during teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Nocturne
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal synergy for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Nocturne is a pretty good teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Olaf and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you must be very careful when lining up Nocturne teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Olaf and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Olaf in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Olaf and Nocturne synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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