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!
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Sett versus Nocturne matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between this set of champions. Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nocturne..
Sett usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sett usually loses when taking on Nocturne, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Sett makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Sett does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Sett also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sett into Nocturne.
Moreover, Sett has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sett 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 team members during teamfights.
Sett is a somewhat poor counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sett against Nocturne.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sett to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett most often picks up much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Sett versus Nocturne build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Sett bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Nocturne than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sett boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Nocturne as Sett, Sett players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Sett vs Nocturne counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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