Nocturne vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Nocturne
based on 7,510 Nocturne vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Nocturne vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Nocturne vs. Leona matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Leona
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Leona, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes an ok counter for Leona.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Leona.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Leona. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus Leona build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Leona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Leona as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nocturne vs Leona battles, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Nocturne are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.