Nocturne vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Nocturne
based on 10,507 Nocturne vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Nocturne vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Nocturne against Kayn counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayn..
Nocturne usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayn. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Kayn
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Kayn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Kayn, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a great counter to Kayn.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate compared to Kayn, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Kayn.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Kayn matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Kayn. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Kayn. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nocturne versus Kayn build consist of Edge of Night, Death's Dance, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Kayn as Nocturne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Kayn LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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