Nocturne vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Nocturne
based on 11,235 Nocturne vs Vayne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Nocturne vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Nocturne vs. Vayne matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vayne..
Nocturne usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Vayne. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Vayne
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Vayne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vayne, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes an ok counter for Vayne.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Vayne, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Vayne.
Moreover, Nocturne also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Vayne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Vayne. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Vayne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often picks up a lot less CS relative to Vayne. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Vayne build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Vayne than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Vayne with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Vayne as Nocturne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nocturne vs Vayne counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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