@Riot I'm glad you are looking into Nocturne but this "buff" is not the way to go

Yemst3r··2 votes·1,112 views

So I just look at PBE changes and Nocturne is getting an AP ratio added to his passive. Nocturne Buffs...YAAAY...not really.

This is such a weird buff, rageblade was never really good on Nocturne and neither was the sated devourer. I'm still messing around with bloodrazor and I think its definitely an improvement over devourer (I am actually starting to prefer it over Warrior) for Nocturne but trying to get rageblade to be part of his build is pointless, he has no on-hit effects on his kit like all the ex-devourer champions and pretty much prefers having armour penetration in his builds (which you since made it harder to obtain since you made yommus more expensive and removed the armour pen from warrior). Blade of the Ruined King use to be core on him but most people just go warrior -> yommus since blade got nerfed.

It's starting to sound like a rant right now, but tbh I dunno what Nocturne exactly needs right now. It's not even like he's bad but other champions right now do his job a lot better. Only significant trait Nocturne has is that ult. It's good you want to give Noc some love but I don't think this is the way to go.

(In case anyone is wondering what I've been running with bloodrazor, Core: Bloodrazor -> Blade of the Ruined King -> Yommus/Trinity. Runes And Masteries: I suggest Armour penetration reds, Attack Speed Quints and Fervor of Battle or else you're gonna be losing a lot of damage)

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The Bíg Ticket1 votes

Nocturne is pretty strong right now btw.

Yemst3r1 votes

I don't think he's weak but he's not as strong as you are making it sound. He's in a weird spot where he's a sort of assassin/skirmisher and I think he does a lot better as a skirmisher especially with the new bloodrazor.

I've played another game with bloodrazor with the build I mentioned. I've come to the conclusion that bloodrazor lets him scale a lot better while still having a decent amount of early game damage and it makes blade of the ruined king a nice purchase on him since they both synergies so well. If Riot are keen to buff him adding a ap ratio on his passive just makes no sense.

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