Nocturne vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Nocturne
based on 4,341 Nocturne vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Nocturne vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Nocturne against Gwen matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gwen..
Nocturne usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Gwen. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Gwen
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Gwen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter for Gwen.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Gwen, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Gwen.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This often 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 Gwen 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a good counter to Gwen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Gwen 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 stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often gets a lot less CS as Gwen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Gwen build include Death's Dance, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 52.8% battling Gwen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Gwen 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 builds players picked for Nocturne vs Gwen counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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