Bard vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Bard
based on 5,520 Bard vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Nocturne
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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!
Bard vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Bard against Nocturne counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Bard or Nocturne?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Nocturne, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter to Nocturne.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Bard into Nocturneas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Nocturne matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Bard is a decent counter for Nocturne. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Nocturne build include Frozen Heart, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Nocturne than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.0% battling Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nocturne as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Bard vs Nocturne counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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