Nocturne vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Nocturne
based on 8,920 Nocturne vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Nocturne vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Nocturne versus Diana counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Nocturne usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Diana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Diana
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Diana, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter for Diana.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Diana, when on opposite teams, 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 Diana.
Moreover, Nocturne has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Diana matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Diana. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne usually gets less CS as Diana. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Diana build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Diana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Diana as Nocturne, Nocturne players should equip 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 combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Diana matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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