It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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 Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her 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 Shyvana perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Nocturne, she observes a great improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nocturne supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside 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 Shyvana plays with Nocturne on the same side, she usually receives much less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Shyvana that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Shyvana and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players don't need to be cautious when finding Nocturne allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Shyvana and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to synergize with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Shyvana and Nocturne synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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