Gragas vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Gragas
based on 3,323 Gragas vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Nocturne
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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!
Gragas vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Gragas against Nocturne counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between these two champions. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne..
Gragas usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Gragas or Nocturne?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Nocturne, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter to Nocturne.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Nocturne.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Nocturne. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically racks up much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas versus Nocturne build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Nocturne than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing against Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nocturne as Gragas, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Gragas vs Nocturne clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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