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Nocturne champion portrait

Nocturne Build

Jungle Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 62,131 gamesUpdated

49.7%win rate2.9%pick13.5%ban

Who counters Nocturne

Every Jungle matchup for Nocturne, ranked →

How to build Nocturne

Plated Steelcaps→Profane Hydra→Axiom Arc→Voltaic Cyclosword

Plated Steelcaps → Profane Hydra → Axiom Arc → Voltaic Cyclosword

48.3% win rate 9% of games 4,180 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph35% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite99%
Skills
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Duskbringer
14578
Shroud of Darkness
214151718
Unspeakable Horror
39101213
Paranoia
61116
StartScorchclaw PupHealth PotionScorchclaw Pup, Health Potion
Full Nocturne build →
49.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.8% over 139,472 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.7% over 62,131 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.0%at Emerald+
2.9%pick rate
13.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
50.8%under 22 min
49.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Nocturne champion portraitJ NocturnevsWarwick champion portraitJ Warwick
8 / 2 / 11

Build

Scorchclaw PupPlated Steelcaps|Experimental Hexplate→Axiom Arc→Voltaic Cyclosword

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Nocturne champion portraitJ NocturnevsDr. Mundo champion portraitJ Dr. Mundo
2 / 7 / 7

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Experimental Hexplate→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Nocturne champion portraitJ NocturnevsEkko champion portraitJ Ekko
4 / 6 / 3

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Hubris→Axiom Arc

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.9% win rate · 35% of games · 21,804 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.3% win rate · 21% of games · 13,152 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
DominationGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 99% of games, 49.6% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps40%Mercury's Treads26%Ionian Boots of Lucidity16%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 49.5% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup100%
10 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Nocturne build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Axiom Arc1st
  2. Profane Hydra2nd
  3. Voltaic Cyclosword3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path54.1% win rate3,073 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Nocturne →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 63,884 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
39% · 49.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
25% · 50.4% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
15% · 49.8% win rate
BootsBoots
8% · 46.0% win rate
No bootsNo boots
5% · 50.1% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
4% · 49.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Stridebreaker›Experimental Hexplate+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 39.0% win rate · 1,245 games
  2. Stridebreaker›Experimental Hexplate+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 40.3% win rate · 952 games
  3. Experimental Hexplate›Stridebreaker+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 43.1% win rate · 686 games
  4. Experimental Hexplate+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 38.2% win rate · 659 games
  5. Axiom Arc›Profane Hydra›Voltaic Cyclosword+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 47.9% win rate · 616 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Nocturne against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Nocturne's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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