Zilean with Nocturne
How to Synergize Zilean and Nocturne
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Zilean Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Nocturne
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean 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 Zilean perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Nocturne, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Nocturne provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside 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.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Nocturne on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Nocturne
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect companion for Zilean that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a very typical ally for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Zilean and Nocturne that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nocturne teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Zilean and Nocturne synergy build include Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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