Lee Sin vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Lee Sin
based on 6,108 Lee Sin vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Nocturne
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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!
Lee Sin vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Lee Sin against Nocturne matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nocturne..
Lee Sin often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nocturne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Nocturne?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lee Sin into Nocturne.
Additionally, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Lee Sin is a trash counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lee Sin to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Nocturne build include Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Nocturne than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 45.1% battling Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Nocturne as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lee Sin vs Nocturne counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.1% winrate overall.
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