Azir vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Azir
based on 3,210 Azir vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Nocturne
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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!
Azir vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Azir against Nocturne counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Azir or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a bad counter for Nocturne.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Nocturneas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Nocturne. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often picks up much more CS as Nocturne. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Azir versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Luden's Companion. When Azir bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Nocturne than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nocturne as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Azir vs Nocturne counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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