Nocturne vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Nocturne
based on 3,301 Nocturne vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against LeBlanc
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.
Advice to Win Against LeBlanc
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
Nocturne vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Nocturne against LeBlanc counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than LeBlanc..
Nocturne typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than LeBlanc. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and LeBlanc
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Who is Better, Nocturne or LeBlanc?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight LeBlanc, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a great counter to LeBlanc.
While Nocturne does have a much higher win rate compared to LeBlanc, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into LeBlanc.
Additionally, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs LeBlanc matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter to LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against LeBlanc.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention 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 most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to LeBlanc. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus LeBlanc build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs LeBlanc than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when playing against LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating LeBlanc as Nocturne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nocturne vs LeBlanc matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.0% winrate overall.
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