Nocturne vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Nocturne
based on 5,844 Nocturne vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Nocturne vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Nocturne versus Rakan matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Rakan
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nocturne into Rakan.
Furthermore, Nocturne has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Rakan matchups, Rakan 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 late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a bad counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nocturne versus Rakan build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Rakan 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Rakan counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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