Janna vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Janna
based on 4,908 Janna vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nocturne
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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!
Janna vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Janna against Nocturne counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nocturne. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Janna or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Nocturne, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter to Nocturne.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Janna also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Nocturneas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nocturne matchups, Janna is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Nocturne. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game 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 tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Janna versus Nocturne build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Nocturne than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 51.7% battling Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Nocturne as Janna, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Janna vs Nocturne face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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