Nocturne vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Nocturne
based on 3,210 Nocturne vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Azir
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Nocturne vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Nocturne against Azir counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Azir..
Nocturne often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Azir
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Azir, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter to Azir.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Azir.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Azir matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Azir during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically accumulates a lot less CS as Azir. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus Azir build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Azir than with many other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Azir as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nocturne vs Azir clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Azir as Nocturne are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.