Nocturne vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Nocturne
based on 3,323 Nocturne vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Nocturne vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Nocturne vs. Gragas matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gragas..
Nocturne typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Gragas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Gragas
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a great counter to Gragas.
While Nocturne does have a much higher winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Gragas.
Additionally, Nocturne has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Gragas 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Gragas. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Gragas during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often picks up a lot less CS as Gragas. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus Gragas build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 54.0% when playing against Gragas with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Gragas as Nocturne, you should use 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 sets that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Gragas matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.0% winrate overall.
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