Seraphine vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Seraphine
based on 9,426 Seraphine vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Seraphine
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!
Seraphine vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Seraphine in LoL
The stats shown here show some vital Seraphine vs. Nocturne matchup stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Seraphine often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Seraphine and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually loses when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Seraphine makes a bad counter for Nocturne.
While Seraphine does have a lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Seraphine also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Seraphine into Nocturne.
Additionally, Seraphine also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often 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 Seraphine vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Seraphine against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Seraphine 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine usually picks up more CS relative to Nocturne. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Seraphine versus Nocturne build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Seraphine combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Nocturne than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Seraphine had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Nocturne as Seraphine, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Seraphine vs Nocturne face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Seraphine are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.