Viktor with Nocturne
How to Synergize Viktor and Nocturne
based on 3,056 Viktor with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Nocturne
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Viktor perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor tries to synergize with Nocturne, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Viktor during team fights.
Synergies between Viktor and Nocturne
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect ally for Viktor that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a fantastic teammate for Viktor. By being on the same side as Viktor, he increases their win rate by 3.6% to 53.8%. This shows that there is an important bond between Viktor and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Viktor and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Viktor in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Viktor and Nocturne synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Viktor incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 53.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Viktor players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Viktor are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.