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.
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
The Nocturne Zyra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zyra, 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 Zyra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zyra helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Zyra, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zyra does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Zyra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zyra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zyra.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Zyra on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zyra does a poor job of covering Nocturne during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Zyra is a superb ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, she increases their win rate by 3.4% to 55.2%. This signals that there is a strong synergy between Nocturne and Zyra that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zyra has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be cautious when lining up Zyra comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nocturne players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nocturne and Zyra together, you will not be granting your other allies enough support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zyra ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to synergize with Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Nocturne and Zyra synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zyra than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 55.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zyra with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nocturne and Zyra pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zyra with Nocturne are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.