Nocturne vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Nocturne
based on 4,478 Nocturne vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Volibear
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.
Nocturne vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several strategic Nocturne versus Volibear counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Volibear..
Nocturne typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Volibear. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Volibear
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Volibear?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Volibear, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a great counter for Volibear.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Volibear, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Volibear.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Volibear matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Volibear. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Volibear. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nocturne versus Volibear build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Volibear than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when countering Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Volibear as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Volibear battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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