Nocturne vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Nocturne
based on 2,066 Nocturne vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Nocturne vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some significant Nocturne vs. Taric counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Taric
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Nocturne does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nocturne into Taric.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a trash counter for Taric. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Taric build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 47.6% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taric as Nocturne, you should take 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 rune builds players used for Nocturne vs Taric counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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