Nocturne vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Nocturne
based on 4,787 Nocturne vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Rammus
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 Rammus
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
Nocturne vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Nocturne versus Rammus matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Nocturne usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rammus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Rammus
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Rammus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when playing against Rammus, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes an ok counter to Rammus.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate compared to Rammus, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Rammus.
Moreover, Nocturne also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter to Rammus. 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 Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Rammus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nocturne versus Rammus build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Rammus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 49.0% battling Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Rammus as Nocturne, you should take 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 used for Nocturne vs Rammus counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Nocturne are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.