Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Nocturne
based on 4,936 Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Nocturne against Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nunu & Willump..
Nocturne often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, Nocturne also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is an above average counter to Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Nunu & Willump build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Nunu & Willump than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Nunu & Willump as Nocturne, you should use 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 used for Nocturne vs Nunu & Willump counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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