Naafiri vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Naafiri
based on 2,817 Naafiri vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Nocturne
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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!
Naafiri vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Naafiri vs. Nocturne counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne..
Naafiri often has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Naafiri makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Naafiri does have a much lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Naafiri into Nocturne.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Naafiri is a bad counter to Nocturne. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically picks up much more CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Nocturne build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when facing Nocturne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 45.1% when countering Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Nocturne as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Naafiri vs Nocturne matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
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