Leona vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Leona
based on 7,510 Leona vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Nocturne
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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!
Leona vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Leona versus Nocturne matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between these two champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Leona or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes an ok counter to Nocturne.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Nocturne.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Nocturne matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often gets a similar amount of CS as Nocturne. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Leona versus Nocturne build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Nocturne than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nocturne as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Leona vs Nocturne counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Leona are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.