Mid · 40 games

Nocturne

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+350 gold).

Win rate: 67.5%; ±14.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #9 of 81
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 2.0%
Games: 40; ranked solo/duo

Nocturne mid wins 67.5% of 40 ranked games, rank 9 of 81 mid champions (tier A). Most players finish Profane Hydra first, at about 8:48.

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

Stridebreaker 10:39 · 40% · 14 games

Item 2 · late game

Axiom Arc 14:48 · 16 of 37 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 11:06 · 35% of games

Item 3 · late game

Voltaic Cyclosword 21:06 · 14 of 32 games

Item 4 · late game

Serylda's Grudge 25:00 · 9 of 19 games

Runes

Hail of Blades · Domination + Precision 28% of games · 45% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 40% of games · 88% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 65% of games · 77% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Duskbringer first 75% of games · 67% 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.

Ends before 25′60% wins13% of games · 5

Lasts 25′ or more66% wins73% of games · 29

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: 86% against 47%

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

First Baron 47% 86% +38

First tower 42% 79% +37

First dragon 47% 83% +36

First blood 61% 76% +16

First Voidgrubs 60% 75% +15

Rift Herald 62% 74% +12

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 damage to towers, more solo kills

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

More damage to towers11062 against 6826 · +62%

More solo kills a game2.8 against 1.8 · +54%

Fewer control wards a game0.70 against 0.98 · −29%

More time spent dead7.3s against 6.0s a minute · +20%

Less vision a minute0.61 against 0.76 · −20%

About average: share of team damage, damage, assists, 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 ~10:18

Item 2done ~16:48

Item 3done ~22:12

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 50.0%4 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

Axiom Arc 71%7

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

Doran's Blade + Health Potion87.5%16

Long Sword + Refillable Potion33.3%15

Doran's Shield + Health Potion75.0%4

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:0650.0%14

Plated Steelcaps ~14:0675.0%8

Mercury's Treads ~11:1860.0%5

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite76.9%26

Exhaust + Flash71.4%7

Flash + Teleport28.6%7

Skills

Max

W66.7%30

Max

E66.7%9

Start

E68.8%16

Start

Q53.3%15

Dies about as often as most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Nocturne dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.2). 51% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 35% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

51%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

65%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (67%)

63%with no teammate nearabout 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

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

Ganks: 28% in their half of mid. Collapses: 38% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 41% 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 51% (avg 50%)Collapse 14% (avg 17%)1-v-1 35% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Nocturne Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 29% (avg 28%)Support 8% (avg 6%)Mid laner 51% (avg 54%)Top laner 7% (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

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 6.2 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.6 in your half of mid. Overall 1.6 kills per death.

Their half of mid 1.1 K/D 30 / 27

Your half of mid 0.6 K/D 14 / 24

Their half of bot lane 6.2 K/D 31 / 5

The bot-side river 2.6 K/D 18 / 7

Their jungle 1.0 K/D 12 / 12

The top-side river 1.1 K/D 9 / 8

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 30% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 28%). The team wins 67% when Nocturne is there and 88% when not.

Nocturne

What most Nocturne players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 86% against 47%

More damage to towers, more solo kills

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 about as often as most mid laners

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

What kills Nocturne

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

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in their jungle

Where fights happen