Morgana vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Morgana
based on 2,838 Morgana vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Nocturne
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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!
Morgana vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Morgana in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several strategic Morgana against Nocturne counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nocturne. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Morgana normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nocturne. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Morgana or Nocturne?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Morgana makes a good counter to Nocturne.
While Morgana does have a higher win rate than Nocturne, when facing one another, Morgana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Nocturne.
Moreover, Morgana also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Nocturne matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter for Nocturne. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nocturne. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Morgana versus Nocturne build include Liandry's Anguish, Shard of True Ice, and Demonic Embrace. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Nocturne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Nocturne as Morgana, Morgana players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Perfect Timing, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Morgana vs Nocturne face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Morgana are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.