Riven vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Riven
based on 6,103 Riven vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Nocturne
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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!
Riven vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several valuable Riven against Nocturne matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Riven normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Riven or Nocturne?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Nocturneas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Nocturne. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually gets much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Nocturne build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Nocturne as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Riven vs Nocturne battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Riven are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.