Nocturne vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Nocturne
based on 4,908 Nocturne vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Nocturne vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Nocturne versus Janna counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nocturne usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Janna
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a poor counter to Janna.
While Nocturne does have a lower winrate than Janna, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Janna.
Additionally, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Janna build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Janna with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Janna 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Janna fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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