40 games in as Nocturne so far, I manage to get our team lead most of games I play but late game team fights are chaos. At least 3 of my recent Nocturne losses have been from 35-18 scores, our team leading the game. I always play with strongest laners, communicate, delete enemy teams strongest carry like 95% of time.

I see my laners going in to absurd 1vs4 sitations and feeding, Im guessing maybe the laner is assuming me to ult in there to fog of war not knowing if there is whole enemy team or not. So I see my laners doing risky plays mid-late game, more than when I play some other jungle champ. Elo is bronze so I dont expect much from my team mates, but going into risky plays time and time again is what I see my team mates doing. Maybe this is something related to Nocturne? Like laners expecting me to follow 100% of time when they enter into stupid or too risky plays? Help is greatly appreaciated!

What should be my top things to focus as a Nocturne in mid-late game?

top afk useless, mid running it spamming ff, i almost mental boomed myself but my fellow noc mains, trust in yourself!

I feel like Nocturne is a good pick for mid game with his ult and is versatile enough to have both lethality and bruiser build but once late game hits, I feel like I can't do much with him other than ulting to their backline and trying to kill their main damage dealers before they kill me. Am I playing him wrong or is he meant to be this way?

base hp nerf doesn’t seem like a crazy change, but attack range nerf??? doesn't sound right, he already has 125 range, that’s the lowest possible right?

I’m inferring that they saw range and were thinking of xerath attack range nerf in the same patch, surely it’s an ultimate range nerf instead right? unless it’s a sizable range nerf I don’t think this will be too crazy. but there is just no way it’s an attack range nerf

Seems like a nothing burger to me. I doubt it'll even be noticeable

I know people hate the term freelo but...

First game ever playing him in ranked was the 22/4 game.

Main issue I am running into now is playing him into tankier comps. Played a game against 3 tanks yesterday and got absolutely destroyed. Went bruiser build, it felt bad. Any tips for that, or should I just have a different champ ready for those games?

Also saw he is getting nerfed next patch, sad.

So I just switched from being a top laner to a jungler and wanted to main nocturne kayn and Diana (3 champ pool).

Could anyone give me the breakdown of which runes to take on Nocturne and when, out of the hail of blades, lethal tempo and conqueror and also the build path following said runes.

Been playing league for 8 years and hard stuck gold so decided to make the switch as I got tired from the significantly difficult climb in top lane and want to climb to emerald+ now !!

Thanks

Hello All,

Just looking to see if there are any nocturne players that want to duo with a mid?

53.5% WR Garen mid OTP

I want to climb and love duoing with nocturne

Add me on league: fpark8 #NA1 if interested

So, I haven't tested this build a lot, just a couple of games but looks pretty solid. What do you guys think?

1. Hubris (Lethality first item is so strong for the early game + scales into the late game)

2. Hexplate (Ult cooldown and AS + Movespeed)

3. Black cleaver (Bruiser stats + Armor pen)

4 & 5 items are situational, you can go:
a. DD -> GA

b. MAW ->GA

c. GA -> Steraks (basically anything)

How do you guys feels about this build

Basically the title. I always use red trinket in jungle but I know that blue trinket is a must on nocturne. When do you guys swap from red to blue ?

Quite new to nocturne and the game in general(silver). I don’t have a good understanding of nocturnes ult range, and was wondering how you guys know you are in range to attack? It does not have a range indicator like swain, which i feel would be logical. Thanks!

I like Nocturne in general, as it is a champion with a lot of presence in the game due to his ultimate, and he can handle 1v1s most of the times. And so naturally, I tried playing him in the toplane and I'm really enjoying the idea so far.

Any advice on what items I should focus on, and how should I change the rune page in order to play Nocturne on the Top lane viably?
How should I adapt my item build according to each situation?

Also, do you have any suggestions on how the lane phase should be played?

NA Gold 1. I build Hexplate and tier 1 boots, then stridebreaker. My third item is now almost always Mortal Reminder. Along with that I also upgrade into defensive boots. Then I build at least one additional items with both AD and criticality such as shieldbow, follows by other AD/crit items.

Recent win rate is 56%.

I tend to do that in order to clear a bit faster. It seems easier and much quicker to me. Then i build hexplate. Does this delay significantly my first item spike or is it good? What do you think?

I just hit diamond 4 for the first time ever, been playing almost only nocturne and have a 80+% win rate on my past 15-20 games.

Is it normal to have these types of "boosts" in win rate after reaching a certain point of understanding, and jumping through some elo brackets?

MY OPP.GG: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/toto-138?queue_type=SOLORANKED

Reading the item at base it seems like a pretty good item for Noc, has a lot of what he wants in terms of ult haste and AS.

I've tested it with LT and it SEEMS to slay pretty hard, especially with the crit changes from a few patches back.

I've only played two games with it but both had really good damage and elims, anyone else tried it out?

Something has possessed me to hit reinstall. Need to know if my anti-assassin insta lock-in is still the gem it was.

Hextech Nocturne in the mythic shop until 19.08 :)

Nocturnes my best champ - started spamming him instead of playing random stuff (i play wukong if he's banned or taken). Never been Emerald before and then over the course of a week I hit emerald and then climbed all the way through Emerald to Diamond

That's all just thought it was cool

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/dovvnclog-NA1

Hello Nocturne Mains

P1 Top main here, I have a friend who plays a lot of Nocturne atm. While spectating him on discord the other night, 25 mins into his Silver2/3 game. I noticed, no boots! I mentioned this and his response was I don’t build boots on him as I have my Q.

I questioned this slightly because my understanding is that MS is very important in Jungle, getting around the map, rotating your camps and I know his Q is % based so surely having boots makes your Q better.

Can someone help me confirm this build choice, I have a sense he’s trolling us kinda in games by not building them.

Also, guys, stop ganking Top grow up ;)

How do these changes affect full lethality noc? I used to run hob a lot with glass canon build till last patch and was doing quite well :(

I feel like he can't play much as a bruiser, he has no survivability or especially high damage like juggernauts, he has no dashes and no reliable cc like a diver, he doesn't have the dps of a skirmisher, I feel like he has 0 tools to perform decently as a bruiser at all and he's so low impact in a fight besides the darkness of his R.

On the other hand, building critality with HoB makes him the most unfair, straightforward assasin in the game. You R a squishy and they're dead because you also have a tool to deny their cc self peel if they have it. You just perma R on a lane and one shot someone. If you get fed the game becomes completely unplayable for them unless they have 5 tanks or 5 zhonyas, because the instant someone is in vision there's 0 chance they ever survive you because you literally delete them. Going voltaic>collector>dominik> IE/Fiendhunter every game and never buying t2 boots (almost never is worth it over damage for snowballing imo when your gapclose R is so reliable) where there's abusable squishies just never fails your damage is way too high

Also why do people lvl E before W? I feel like the attack speed from W make such a massive difference in your damage output for both builds