Nocturne vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Nocturne
based on 11,572 Nocturne vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Nocturne vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Nocturne against Morgana counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Morgana. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Morgana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Morgana
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Morgana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Morgana, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter for Morgana.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Morgana, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Morgana.
Moreover, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Morgana matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Morgana. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to counter Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often accumulates less CS as Morgana. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nocturne versus Morgana build include Edge of Night, Death's Dance, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Morgana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 51.3% battling Morgana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Morgana as Nocturne, you should equip 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 combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Morgana fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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