Nocturne vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nocturne
based on 5,520 Nocturne vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Nocturne vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some important Nocturne against Bard matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Bard
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nocturne into Bard.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a garbage counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Bard build include Maw of Malmortius, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Bard as Nocturne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nocturne vs Bard counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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