Nocturne vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Nocturne
based on 5,630 Nocturne vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Vladimir Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Nocturne Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Vladimir as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Nocturne vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Nocturne versus Vladimir counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Nocturne typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vladimir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Vladimir
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Nocturne or Vladimir?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Vladimir, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter to Vladimir.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate compared to Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Vladimir.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Vladimir matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Vladimir. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Vladimir.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nocturne
Additional Information for Nocturne Players
How We Calculated Our Nocturne vs Vladimir Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Vladimir during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average gets a lot less CS relative to Vladimir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nocturne versus Vladimir build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Serylda's Grudge. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Vladimir than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when countering Vladimir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Vladimir as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nocturne vs Vladimir counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
If you would like to see Nocturne versus Vladimir tips and builds for a a particular division, please select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides displayed are computed using every round finished with both champs.