Nocturne vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Nocturne
based on 2,482 Nocturne vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Braum
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 Braum
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
Nocturne vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Nocturne vs. Braum matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Braum. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Braum. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Braum
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Braum?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Braum, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter to Braum.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Braum.
Moreover, Nocturne also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Braum matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Braum. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Braum. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require 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 best items to use in your Nocturne versus Braum build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Braum than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 51.7% battling Braum with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Braum as Nocturne, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Braum clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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