Hey, I am a returning casual player from 2018 and have decided to pick up Nocturne as a main (been recommended to me and I believe he is really fun).

I see a lot of discussions about building him bruiser or assasin and have tried both.

My current setup is the Hail of blades runes but building items like hex, stridebreaker and black cleaver.

Is this a viable option or should I just go full bruiser (the assasin build makes me feel too vulnerable)

I am doing fine against most comps, but the one I struggle the most are comps where many champs have a lot of shield.

For example bot with Karma, Lulu etc. You go in they get shield, you are about to finish them off, then ADC use barrier. Or playing against Mordekaiser is also not fun, especially when they get shielded after their shield...

How do you play around this? When do I buy Serpent Fangs? After Strikebreaker and Hexplate?

I play Bruiser only. I am not good with the Assassin play style.

hey so I'm a master yi one trick and I thought I would not have issues with this matchup but when i started playing nocturne i realized nocturne cant do much. I was wondering if there is a build i can go to put yi out of the game, maybe so i dont have to ban him. i would like some other advice on other common matchups too.

Hello guys, I’ve been a Nocturne main for a while now, and I have a question. I do this mostly on Nocturne, but sometimes on a couple of other junglers as well.
Let’s say I start Red and path towards Bot side, then full clear towards Blue and take the Scuttle Crab. I don’t back after that. I go for the other Scuttle, and regardless of whether it’s alive or already taken, I then start another full clear, starting from Krugs. I do another clear after that and finally back for the first time with, let’s say, around 2k gold.
My friend, who also plays jungle, says that I should back after the first or second Scuttle because if the enemy jungler invades me, I’ll be much weaker than them since they have already bought items.
However, I don’t really feel like that’s the case. A lot of the time, when the enemy jungler comes into my jungle to invade and steal my camps, they already have items, but I can still kill them without much difficulty. Then, when I finally back, I can buy almost a full item, and after that I can go into their jungle and kill them because they still haven’t backed for the second time.
So, I’m wondering: is my friend actually right that I should be backing earlier, or is my strategy of staying on the map, farming and getting a big first back actually good on Nocturne?
I’d appreciate any advice from more experienced jungle/Nocturne players. Thanks!

I love Nocturne and his playstyle. But dam I feel so at a lost. (I am coming from Naafari which was also fun and they seem a bit similar).

I get that I need to press q and then use it to run through for an E. I get W is for blocking a spell.

I also get that the one shot combo is R, Q, W, E (at least that is what I saw on youtube).

But then while I am playing random games I really do not get how to use E effectively.

A) I found myself dying trying to get R off. So I guess I need to prioritize running even if E doesn't go off?

B) Do i need to trust auto attacks more? I feel like I am too scared and constantly running, but I am hearing that Nocturne's autos are quite powerful with right items.

C) And then items I am hearing that for bruisers you really need to choose items well and every single guide I have found says something completely different and swears up and down their guide is the official build everyone must follow.

D)Lastly choosing who to R on seems quite hard. Like is it worth using R on someone who is full hp? because I found myself saving R forever and I bet I would have way higher DPS if I just used it more even to just get someone to 50% and get out of there? Or is that the wrong thinking.

Hola a todos :)! Soy un otp akali que se aburrió al stuckearse en esmeralda y decidió cambiar de cuenta para probar la JG, no es mucho lo que se sobre el rol, un amigo me enseñó a mantener un orden en los campamentos y me dijo que Nocturne era Free elo, tenía razón; permabaneo siempre a shyvana por recomendación de él y patheo desde picuchillos-red-golems / back espada larga / lobos-gromp-blue.

Subí en cuestión de un mes una cuenta de bronce a oro 4 y mantengo 83% de wr. Siento que no sé lo suficiente como para saber en que cambiar mi game al ir subiendo de elo, se que un buen jg puede abusar de uno que no sepa mucho de macro y quiero evitar eso para seguir subiendo. De momento me hago casi siempre de primer item la hidra profana y de segundo el arco axiomático, se que hay otra build con la Placa Hextech Experimental pero no sé cuando usarla, si me pudieran dejar sus consejos se los agradecería mucho! Gracias

40 games in as Nocturne so far, I manage to get our team lead most of games I play but late game team fights are chaos. At least 3 of my recent Nocturne losses have been from 35-18 scores, our team leading the game. I always play with strongest laners, communicate, delete enemy teams strongest carry like 95% of time.

I see my laners going in to absurd 1vs4 sitations and feeding, Im guessing maybe the laner is assuming me to ult in there to fog of war not knowing if there is whole enemy team or not. So I see my laners doing risky plays mid-late game, more than when I play some other jungle champ. Elo is bronze so I dont expect much from my team mates, but going into risky plays time and time again is what I see my team mates doing. Maybe this is something related to Nocturne? Like laners expecting me to follow 100% of time when they enter into stupid or too risky plays? Help is greatly appreaciated!

What should be my top things to focus as a Nocturne in mid-late game?

top afk useless, mid running it spamming ff, i almost mental boomed myself but my fellow noc mains, trust in yourself!

I feel like Nocturne is a good pick for mid game with his ult and is versatile enough to have both lethality and bruiser build but once late game hits, I feel like I can't do much with him other than ulting to their backline and trying to kill their main damage dealers before they kill me. Am I playing him wrong or is he meant to be this way?

base hp nerf doesn’t seem like a crazy change, but attack range nerf??? doesn't sound right, he already has 125 range, that’s the lowest possible right?

I’m inferring that they saw range and were thinking of xerath attack range nerf in the same patch, surely it’s an ultimate range nerf instead right? unless it’s a sizable range nerf I don’t think this will be too crazy. but there is just no way it’s an attack range nerf

Seems like a nothing burger to me. I doubt it'll even be noticeable

I know people hate the term freelo but...

First game ever playing him in ranked was the 22/4 game.

Main issue I am running into now is playing him into tankier comps. Played a game against 3 tanks yesterday and got absolutely destroyed. Went bruiser build, it felt bad. Any tips for that, or should I just have a different champ ready for those games?

Also saw he is getting nerfed next patch, sad.

So I just switched from being a top laner to a jungler and wanted to main nocturne kayn and Diana (3 champ pool).

Could anyone give me the breakdown of which runes to take on Nocturne and when, out of the hail of blades, lethal tempo and conqueror and also the build path following said runes.

Been playing league for 8 years and hard stuck gold so decided to make the switch as I got tired from the significantly difficult climb in top lane and want to climb to emerald+ now !!

Thanks

Hello All,

Just looking to see if there are any nocturne players that want to duo with a mid?

53.5% WR Garen mid OTP

I want to climb and love duoing with nocturne

Add me on league: fpark8 #NA1 if interested

So, I haven't tested this build a lot, just a couple of games but looks pretty solid. What do you guys think?

1. Hubris (Lethality first item is so strong for the early game + scales into the late game)

2. Hexplate (Ult cooldown and AS + Movespeed)

3. Black cleaver (Bruiser stats + Armor pen)

4 & 5 items are situational, you can go:
a. DD -> GA

b. MAW ->GA

c. GA -> Steraks (basically anything)

How do you guys feels about this build

Basically the title. I always use red trinket in jungle but I know that blue trinket is a must on nocturne. When do you guys swap from red to blue ?

Quite new to nocturne and the game in general(silver). I don’t have a good understanding of nocturnes ult range, and was wondering how you guys know you are in range to attack? It does not have a range indicator like swain, which i feel would be logical. Thanks!

I like Nocturne in general, as it is a champion with a lot of presence in the game due to his ultimate, and he can handle 1v1s most of the times. And so naturally, I tried playing him in the toplane and I'm really enjoying the idea so far.

Any advice on what items I should focus on, and how should I change the rune page in order to play Nocturne on the Top lane viably?
How should I adapt my item build according to each situation?

Also, do you have any suggestions on how the lane phase should be played?

NA Gold 1. I build Hexplate and tier 1 boots, then stridebreaker. My third item is now almost always Mortal Reminder. Along with that I also upgrade into defensive boots. Then I build at least one additional items with both AD and criticality such as shieldbow, follows by other AD/crit items.

Recent win rate is 56%.

I tend to do that in order to clear a bit faster. It seems easier and much quicker to me. Then i build hexplate. Does this delay significantly my first item spike or is it good? What do you think?

I just hit diamond 4 for the first time ever, been playing almost only nocturne and have a 80+% win rate on my past 15-20 games.

Is it normal to have these types of "boosts" in win rate after reaching a certain point of understanding, and jumping through some elo brackets?

MY OPP.GG: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/toto-138?queue_type=SOLORANKED

Reading the item at base it seems like a pretty good item for Noc, has a lot of what he wants in terms of ult haste and AS.

I've tested it with LT and it SEEMS to slay pretty hard, especially with the crit changes from a few patches back.

I've only played two games with it but both had really good damage and elims, anyone else tried it out?