Nocturne vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Nocturne
based on 5,447 Nocturne vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Amumu
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Nocturne vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Nocturne versus Amumu matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Amumu
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Amumu?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Amumu, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter for Amumu.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Amumu.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Amumu matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne to counter Amumu during both the lane 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 displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Amumu. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Nocturne versus Amumu build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.0% battling Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Amumu as Nocturne, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Amumu matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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