Nocturne with Gwen
How to Synergize Nocturne and Gwen
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Nocturne Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Gwen
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.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Nocturne Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nocturne sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is an ally to Gwen, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This could signal that Gwen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Gwen on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Gwen does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Gwen
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Gwen is a relatively poor teammate for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Nocturne and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you should be cautious when finding Gwen allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nocturne and Gwen together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Nocturne to pair well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Nocturne and Gwen synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gwen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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