Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some vital Ahri against Nocturne matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne..
Ahri often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Nocturne, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Nocturne.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a trash counter to Nocturne. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Nocturne.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri usually accumulates much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ahri versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nocturne as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Ahri vs Nocturne counters, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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