Rakan with Nocturne
How to Synergize Rakan and Nocturne
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Rakan Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Nocturne
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nocturne provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Nocturne on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Rakan in team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a decent companion for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Rakan and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Rakan players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Nocturne together, you will not be providing your team enough engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Rakan and Nocturne synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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