Nocturne vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Nocturne
based on 11,740 Nocturne vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Nocturne vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Nocturne against Lucian matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian..
Nocturne typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lucian. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Lucian
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Lucian?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Lucian, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Lucian.
Moreover, Nocturne also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Lucian matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Lucian. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often racks up a lot less CS as Lucian. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus Lucian build include Experimental Hexplate, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Lucian with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Lucian as Nocturne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Ultimate Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Lucian matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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