Vayne vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Vayne
based on 11,235 Vayne vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Nocturne
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Advice to Win Against Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Vayne vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Vayne versus Nocturne counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne..
Vayne normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Vayne or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nocturne, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes an ok counter for Nocturne.
While Vayne does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Nocturneas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often accumulates much more CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vayne versus Nocturne build include Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vayne boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nocturne as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vayne vs Nocturne counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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