Akshan vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Akshan
based on 3,754 Akshan vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Nocturne
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Nocturne
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!
Akshan vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Akshan against Nocturne counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Akshan typically has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Typically, they takes less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Nocturne, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter to Nocturne.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Nocturne.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a bad counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often racks up much more CS as Nocturne. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Nocturne build include Infinity Edge, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when facing Nocturne than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Nocturne as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan vs Nocturne battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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