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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Nocturne vs. Viego matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Viego..
Nocturne typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Viego. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when taking on Viego, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate than Viego, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Viego.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Viego matchups, Viego is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter for Viego. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Viego.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Viego during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Viego. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus Viego build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Viego than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Viego with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Viego as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Nocturne vs Viego clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Viego as Nocturne are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.