Skill usage Edit

•  Umbra Blades allows Nocturne to jungle well. Attack speed runes and his  Shroud of Darkness synergize well with Umbra Blades since its cooldown is decreased with every autoattack landed.
• Using  Duskbringer is an effective way to chase or escape an enemy.
• Be sure to hit your target with  Duskbringer when you are ganking, as it will allow you to close distance and stay on your target more easily.
• Stealthed champions hit by  Duskbringer will leave a trail, allowing you to momentarily observe their movements despite their invisibility.
•  Duskbringer can be a good tool when attacking turrets. A well aimed  Duskbringer may not only damage oncoming minions, but also gives you the benefits of a Dusk Trail, allowing you to do more damage to the turret. However, this tactic should be used with caution if an enemy champion is nearby, as hitting an enemy champion with  Duskbringer will cause the turret's priority to change to you.
•  Unspeakable Horror has great synergy with  Duskbringer. You can either use the fear to ensure landing  Duskbringer or vice versa.
• Enemy champions closing on you might not see  Unspeakable Horror in time. Use this to your advantage.
• Using  Unspeakable Horror as an excellent tool to fend against two, it gives great surviving capabilities.
• Save your  Shroud of Darkness if you don't require it. It can be essential for surviving ganks or ganking others.
  • A well timed  Shroud of Darkness can turn fights in your favor. Time it to avoid high damage abilities such as  Requiem or hard CC.
• Early and mid game,  Paranoia is a great way to pounce on an overextended opponent for an easy kill. Late game it becomes a useful dash during teamfights ensuring that nobody escapes with low health.
  • Even if you aren't near the fight, don't be afraid to use  Paranoia to confuse and separate the other team.
  • Using it during a teamfight in the jungle is extra powerful because the enemies outside of brush completely lose sight inside of it due to a lack of shared sight. It can cause them to unknowingly split up in the confusion.
• Nocturne becomes more powerful with more map vision. His  Paranoia does not reveal the enemy champions, so you must have vision of them in order to dash to them. Because of this getting Sight Wards and placing them around the map is highly recommended.
• Nocturne's  Paranoia can only target enemies in the radius of  Paranoia and with sight. For this reason, Twisted Fate's  Destiny synergizes well as it gives sight to all enemies, even invisible champions and ones in brush, allowing Nocturne to be able to hit a target in the fog of war.
  • For this reason, Warwick's  Blood Scent also synergizes with Nocturne. As it detects a nearby low health champion, Allowing Nocturne to use his  Paranoia and dash to the target.

Build usage Edit

• Stacking attack damage benefits Nocturne greatly.
  • As his  Duskbringer,  Umbra Blades and  Paranoia scale of attack damage quite well, building AD can give him a good burst when he hits all of his abilities on one target
• As with most DPS champions, Youmuu's Ghostblade has great synergy with Nocturne because of the armor penetration, cooldown reduction, and most notably the attack speed and movement speed active.
• Combining a Banshee's Veil with his  Shroud of Darkness will allow Nocturne to ignore two enemy abilities, greatly increasing his survivability.
  • Be aware that activating  Shroud of Darkness while Banshee's Veil is up will cause both shields to pop when hit by an ability.
• A Wriggle's Lantern is a powerful item on a jungling Nocturne. Building it early allows for extra life steal, which can help Nocturne stay on a target longer and secure a gank, as well as the bonus ward effect. Since junglers should be assisting with wards anyways, it easily ends up paying for itself by mid-game if used consistently.
• Nocturne can certainly use on-hit effects, but does not necessarily require them. They can be very useful on him, though.
• Nocturne players should limit their choice of boots to a small range: Mercury's Treads or Berserker's Greaves with emphasis on Mercury's Treads due to his squishy nature.
• Getting attack speed items can give Nocturne enormous attack speed advantage over other champions since he naturally gains 40% attack speed due to the passive from  Shroud of Darkness when fully upgraded.
• Trinity Force provides a wide variety of stats, nearly all of which are quite useful to Nocturne (with ability power being the least useful, though not entirely useless as  Unspeakable Horror has a 1.0 ability power ratio).
• In 5v5, If you think you are being targeted more often, it is best to build tanky items for survivability as Nocturne can be very squishy.
  • Frozen Mallet and Wit's End are examples of items that benefit Nocturne's damage output and survivability.

Gameplay Edit

• While powerful in utility, Nocturne is lacking in stats. Early survivability items can boost his gameplay noticeably.
• • It is likely that prepared enemies are quickly getting an Oracle's Elixir to counter wards or Sight Wards to scout for Nocturne. Prepare to counter them fast and properly as soon as possible. Getting your own Oracle's Elixir to counter their wards is an effective way to keep opponents unaware of your location and create optimal ganking opportunities.
  • It's also advised to maintain good map control and counter enemy map control so you can more effectively surprise enemies with low Health when  Paranoia available.
• Enemies immediately prepare for being attacked as soon as  Paranoia clouds the screen. Use this to your advantage before reacting too hectic.
• Having at least one Clairvoyance on your team is a great way for you to aim champion enemies with  Paranoia.
• Nocturne features Carry and Assassin skill sets. Therefore, grabbing some Attack Damage is recommended.
• Hunter's Machete and five Health Potions are near mandatory on Nocturne in the jungle due to the sustain and damage output increase.

Jungling Edit

Items	Runes	Spells
Hunter's Machete Health Potion x 5	Greater Mark of Attack speed Greater Seal of Armor Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist Greater Quintessence of Armor Penetration	Smite Ghost

Masteries

Skill Order	Route Order	Notes
Duskbringer  Shroud of Darkness  Duskbringer  Unspeakable Horror  Duskbringer  Paranoia	Blue golem Wolves Wraiths Red Lizard Small Golems Wraiths	• Duskbringer can be used to get to monster camps faster.

Recommended builds Edit

Summoner's Rift recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Proving Grounds recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Crystal Scar recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Twisted Treeline! recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

Countering Edit

• Although Nocturne lane dominance is great because of his  Umbra Blades and  Duskbringer, He is very squishy early game. Putting aggressive pressure on him will make him underleveled or underfarmed.
  • Keep in mind however that he is resilient to zoning because of the spell shield from his  Shroud of Darkness.
• Try to juke to avoid  Duskbringer because this will increase Nocturne's movement speed if it hits you.
• Breaking  Unspeakable Horror's leash can be critical to your survival.
  • Keep in mind that means he can initiate his fights/ganks without worrying about a Veil blocking his  Duskbringer or  Unspeakable Horror if he does initiate with  Paranoia.
• If  Shroud of Darkness is being used, save your crowd control abilities for after it expires - or if you want to crowd control him faster, pop it with another ability.
• Always remember, Nocturne cannot target you with his ult if he can't see you. If you lose your vision, due to the effects of  Paranoia, try quickly hiding in the brush or stealthing to prevent his dash to you. Another alternative is to use Quicksilver Sash or Cleanse, which will remove the sight debuff while his ultimate is active.
  • Also, while under the effects of  Paranoia, you and your teammates can still see each others' map pings.
• Try to stay close with your allies when Nocturne uses his  Paranoia so you and your allies are prepared to fight him.
• Never overextend when chasing Nocturne. If you are also low on health and is attacked by turret, he will activate his  Paranoia and dash to you. This can result in your death.
• If you are playing as Nocturne and the enemy team also has a Nocturne, using  Paranoia immediately as the opposing Nocturne does effectively makes his dash impossible, unless he is right on top of his target. Keep in mind that this tactic clearly costs you a chance to use your ult, but timing this technique can save a player near death.

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