Nocturne vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Nocturne
based on 2,741 Nocturne vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Nocturne vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Nocturne against Orianna counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
Nocturne often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Orianna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Orianna
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Orianna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Orianna, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a great counter to Orianna.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Orianna.
Moreover, Nocturne has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Orianna 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 allies during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Orianna. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Orianna. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Orianna build include Death's Dance, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Orianna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 53.8% battling Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Orianna as Nocturne, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Orianna face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.8% win rate overall.
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