Nocturne with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Nocturne and Rek'Sai
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Nocturne Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Nocturne Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rek'Sai helps Nocturne perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Rek'Sai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Nocturne in team fights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Rek'Sai
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top ally for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Rek'Sai is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 50.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nocturne and Rek'Sai that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rek'Sai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Nocturne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Rek'Sai together, you may not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Nocturne to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Nocturne and Rek'Sai synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nocturne and Rek'Sai pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Rek'Sai with Nocturne are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.