Volibear vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Volibear
based on 4,478 Volibear vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Volibear
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!
Volibear vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Volibear in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Volibear versus Nocturne matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne..
Volibear normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nocturne. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Volibear and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Volibear or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Volibear makes a bad counter for Nocturne.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Volibear also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Nocturne.
Additionally, Volibear has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Volibear is a terribly counter for Nocturne. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Volibear in order to counter Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear typically picks up much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Volibear versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Nocturne than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Nocturne as Volibear, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Volibear vs Nocturne counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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