Samira with Nocturne
How to Synergize Samira and Nocturne
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Samira Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Nocturne
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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.
Samira Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Samira in LoL
The Samira Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Samira perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira tries to synergize with Nocturne, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Nocturne on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Samira during team fights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect synergy for Samira that will always be her top teammate. However, Nocturne is a pretty good companion for Samira. By being on the same side as Samira, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Samira and Nocturne that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Samira players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Samira and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your team much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Samira and Nocturne synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Hubris. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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