Nocturne vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Nocturne
based on 8,171 Nocturne vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Nocturne vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Nocturne against Xerath matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xerath..
Nocturne normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Xerath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Xerath
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Xerath?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Xerath, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a great counter to Xerath.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Xerath, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Xerath.
Additionally, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Xerath matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Xerath. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Xerath. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nocturne versus Xerath build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Xerath with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Xerath as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Xerath clashes, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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