Diana vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Diana
based on 3,700 Diana vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Nocturne
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
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!
Diana vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Diana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Diana versus Nocturne matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne..
Diana typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Diana or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually wins when taking on Nocturne, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a good counter for Nocturne.
While Diana does have a higher win rate than Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Diana into Nocturne.
Additionally, Diana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Nocturne matchups, Diana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Diana is a good counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Diana against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Diana in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana usually accumulates more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Diana versus Nocturne build include Sunfire Aegis, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Nocturne as Diana, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Diana vs Nocturne clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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