Nocturne vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Nocturne
based on 1,832 Nocturne vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Nocturne vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Nocturne against Cassiopeia counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Cassiopeia..
Nocturne often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Cassiopeia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Cassiopeia?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter to Cassiopeia.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Cassiopeia, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Cassiopeia.
Additionally, Nocturne has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Cassiopeia matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is an above average counter to Cassiopeia. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average accumulates a lot less CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Cassiopeia build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Cassiopeia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Cassiopeia 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Cassiopeia matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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