Nocturne vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Nocturne
based on 5,576 Nocturne vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Nocturne vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Nocturne vs. Nami matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Nami. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Nami
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Nami, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter for Nami.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Nami, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Nami.
Additionally, Nocturne has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Nami matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a good counter to Nami. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nami. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nocturne versus Nami build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Nami than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nami 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 combinations players used for Nocturne vs Nami fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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