Garen vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Garen
based on 7,510 Garen vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Nocturne
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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!
Garen vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some vital Garen vs. Nocturne counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nocturne..
Garen usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Garen or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Nocturne.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Garen is a trash counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Nocturne 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often accumulates much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Garen versus Nocturne build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Nocturne than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Nocturne as Garen, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Garen vs Nocturne matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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