Mid · 20 games · NA

Nocturne

Mid · 10% of games Jungle · 86%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+379 gold).

Win rate: 60.0%; ±21.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #23 of 79
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 2.9%
Games: 20; ranked solo/duo

Nocturne mid wins 60.0% of 20 ranked games in NA, rank 23 of 79 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Profane Hydra first, at about 8:42.

The build at a glance

What most Nocturne players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Profane Hydra 8:24 · 67% · 10 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 10:30 · 55% of games

Item 2

Axiom Arc 14:56 · 100% · 10 games

Item 3

Voltaic Cyclosword 19:28 · 100% · 10 games

Item 4 · late game

Serylda's Grudge 25:00 · 9 of 13 games

Runes

Hail of Blades · Domination + Precision 55% of games · 45% wins All runes →

Start

Long Sword + Refillable Potion 65% of games · 38% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 85% of games · 65% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Duskbringer first 80% of games · 63% wins Skill orders →

When Nocturne wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Lasts 25′ or more57% wins35% of games · 7

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Nocturne games

First Baron: 82% against 33%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 33% 82% +48

First dragon 33% 71% +38

Rift Herald 54% 71% +18

First tower 50% 67% +17

First Voidgrubs 62% 57% −4

First blood 64% 50% −14

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Nocturne plays

More solo kills, more damage to towers

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More solo kills a game3.6 against 1.9 · +97%

More damage to towers12579 against 6920 · +82%

More multikills a game1.00 against 0.75 · +33%

More deaths a game7.0 against 5.6 · +24%

More time spent dead7.4s against 6.1s a minute · +20%

About average: control wards, minions.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~9:12

Item 2done ~15:54

Item 3done ~21:06

Item 4done ~25:54

Most common full builds

Profane Hydra › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Axiom Arc › Voltaic Cyclosword › Serylda's Grudge 50.0%8 games

Profane Hydra › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Axiom Arc › Voltaic Cyclosword 0.0%2 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Long Sword + Refillable Potion38.5%13

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%3

Doran's Blade + Health Potion100.0%2

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:3045.5%11

Plated Steelcaps ~13:42100.0%3

Mercury's Treads ~11:1833.3%3

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite64.7%17

Flash + Teleport33.3%3

Skills

Max

W62.5%16

Max

E33.3%3

Start

Q41.7%12

Start

E85.7%7

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Nocturne dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.2). 52% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 44% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

52%involve the enemy junglermore than average (49%)

56%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (66%)

66%with no teammate nearmore than average (62%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Nocturne dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

Ganks: 31% in their half of mid. Collapses: 50% in their half of mid. 1-v-1s: 36% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Nocturne

Kind of death

Nocturne Average

Gank 52% (avg 49%)Collapse 4% (avg 17%)1-v-1 44% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Nocturne Average

Bot laner 4% (avg 7%)Jungler 30% (avg 27%)Support 8% (avg 6%)Mid laner 52% (avg 55%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Nocturne Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Nocturne; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Nocturne wins fights

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 84 kills and 50 deaths.

Their half of mid 1.0 K/D 16 / 16

Their half of bot lane 4.4 K/D 22 / 5

The bot-side river 2.3 K/D 14 / 6

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Nocturne wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 32% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 69% when Nocturne is there and 86% when not.

Nocturne

What most Nocturne players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 82% against 33%

More solo kills, more damage to towers

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Nocturne's games

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

What kills Nocturne

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen