Nocturne vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Nocturne
based on 4,934 Nocturne vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Nocturne vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Nocturne versus Soraka counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Soraka
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Soraka?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Soraka, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Soraka.
Moreover, Nocturne has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Soraka matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is an above average counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to counter Soraka during both the lane 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 stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus Soraka build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Soraka than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 53.0% when playing against Soraka with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Soraka as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take 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 runes players used for Nocturne vs Soraka face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Nocturne are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.