Sona with Nocturne
How to Synergize Sona and Nocturne
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Sona Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Sona with Nocturne
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Sona perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona tries to synergize with Nocturne, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nocturne provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Nocturne on the same team, 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.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Nocturne on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Sona during team fights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect companion for Sona that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a pretty good teammate for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Sona and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Sona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Sona and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your team much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Sona and Nocturne synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 51.8% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Sona and Nocturne pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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