Nami vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Nami
based on 5,576 Nami vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Nocturne
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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!
Nami vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Nami in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some significant Nami versus Nocturne counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Nami or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually loses when facing off against Nocturne, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Nami does have a lower winrate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nami into Nocturne.
Additionally, Nami also has a lot 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nami is a trash counter for Nocturne. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nami versus Nocturne build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Nocturne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nocturne as Nami, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nami vs Nocturne counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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