Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Taliyah perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taliyah tries to synergize with Nocturne, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Nocturne on the same side, she typically takes less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Taliyah in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Nocturne is a top-tier companion for Taliyah. By playing on the same team as Taliyah, he raises their win rate by 5.3% to 54.1%. This shows that there is a very real strategic relationship between Taliyah and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players don't need to be cautious when finding Nocturne allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Taliyah players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Taliyah and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your other allies very much support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Taliyah and Nocturne synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Taliyah players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taliyah and Nocturne pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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