Rakan vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Rakan
based on 5,844 Rakan vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Nocturne
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Win Against Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Rakan vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Rakan against Nocturne matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nocturne. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Rakan or Nocturne?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when taking on Nocturne, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a good counter for Nocturne.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Rakan also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Nocturne.
Additionally, Rakan has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Nocturne matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rakan is a decent counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Nocturne. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rakan versus Nocturne build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Frozen Heart. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nocturne as Rakan, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rakan vs Nocturne counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Rakan are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.