Nocturne vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Nocturne
based on 7,510 Nocturne vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Nocturne vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Nocturne vs. Garen counter stats that can help you explain the differences between these two champs. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Nocturne often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Garen
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a great counter for Garen.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Garen.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Garen 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 teammates during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Garen. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nocturne versus Garen build include Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Garen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 53.5% battling Garen with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Garen as Nocturne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Garen counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
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