Zed with Nocturne
How to Synergize Zed and Nocturne
based on 5,466 Zed with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nocturne
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Nocturne, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nocturne provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Nocturne on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Nocturne is a very typical companion for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Zed and Nocturne that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Zed players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you need to 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Zed and Nocturne synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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