Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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 Aatrox 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, Aatrox 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 drop shows that Nocturne helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Nocturne, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nocturne supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Nocturne on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Aatrox in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Aatrox that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Nocturne is a pretty good ally for Aatrox. By being on the same side as Aatrox, he improves their win rate by 2.2% to 52.6%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Aatrox and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Aatrox players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Aatrox and Nocturne together, you probably will not be giving your team very much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Aatrox and Nocturne synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 52.6% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nocturne with Aatrox are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.