Nocturne vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Nocturne
based on 1,455 Nocturne vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Nocturne vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Nocturne versus Elise counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between these two champs. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Elise..
Nocturne often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Elise. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Elise
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Elise, with a 55.3% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a fantastic counter to Elise.
While Nocturne does have a much higher win rate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Elise.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Elise matchups, Nocturne is the better champ 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 a great counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus Elise build include Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Elise than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 55.3% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Elise as Nocturne, you 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 rune builds players chose for Nocturne vs Elise face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.3% winrate overall.
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