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 highlight several strategic Nocturne vs. Yuumi matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yuumi. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yuumi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Yuumi, with a 58.5% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a fantastic counter for Yuumi.
While Nocturne does have a much higher win rate compared to Yuumi, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Yuumi.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yuumi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Yuumi matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Yuumi. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Yuumi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Yuumi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average racks up more CS compared to Yuumi. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nocturne versus Yuumi build include Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Yuumi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 58.5% when playing against Yuumi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Yuumi as Nocturne, Nocturne players 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 picked for Nocturne vs Yuumi matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 58.5% winrate overall.
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