Nocturne vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Nocturne
based on 7,932 Nocturne vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Nocturne vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Nocturne against Thresh matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Thresh
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Thresh, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a great counter to Thresh.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Thresh.
Additionally, Nocturne also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Thresh matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Thresh.
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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 Thresh during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Thresh build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Thresh than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 53.2% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Thresh as Nocturne, Nocturne players 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 picked for Nocturne vs Thresh battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.2% winrate overall.
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