Nocturne vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Nocturne
based on 2,391 Nocturne vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Nocturne vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Nocturne against Zilean counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Zilean
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Zilean, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter to Zilean.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Zilean, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Zilean.
Additionally, Nocturne also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Zilean matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Zilean. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Zilean.
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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 Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often picks up less CS compared to Zilean. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Nocturne versus Zilean build include Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Zilean than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Zilean with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Zilean as Nocturne, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nocturne vs Zilean battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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