Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Nocturne against Fiora matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiora..
Nocturne normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Fiora. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when playing against Fiora, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes an ok counter for Fiora.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate compared to Fiora, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Fiora.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Fiora matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Fiora. Focus your tactics on maximizing 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 Nocturne against Fiora.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Fiora. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Fiora build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Fiora than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Fiora with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Fiora as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nocturne vs Fiora counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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