Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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 Soraka 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, Soraka 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 decrease shows that Nocturne helps Soraka perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka is paired with Nocturne, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nocturne provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Soraka plays with Nocturne on the same team, 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 Soraka during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Soraka that will always be her best ally. However, Nocturne is a good ally for Soraka. By being on the same side as Soraka, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Soraka and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Soraka. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Soraka and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your team a lot of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka to synergize with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Soraka and Nocturne synergy build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Dawncore. When Soraka incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Soraka players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Soraka are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.