What was riot's idea of Nocturne?

BakutoNinja47··1 votes·1,603 views

Nocturne is a champ I love due to his playstyle as a nightmarish hell of a champ that will haunt adc's dreams by sticking onto them for a good period of time before doing half their hp and dying right after. Nocturnes assassin playstyle makes him a rocket waiting to seek into it's destination and his bruiser build is a duelist. I find myself doing both however once late game comes it's frustrating jumping in only to get perm cced and die right after since noc has no escape but a speed buff and spell shield when we have kha'zix jumping around the place. There's plenty of assassins that can easily beat nocturne in duels and he was even ignored in the assassin update. I feel as if riot just forgot about him but I know that they're planning a rework for him in the future it's just that we need a little something for the ghost to keep him within the meta. I realize that noc has been seen in competitive play recently with his assassin build but never with his bruiser. I have no idea what riot's intentions are with the champ and he just seems so dead and out of place of a champ. His Kit is outdated and he has no place in lore. I hope riot does something about my favorite ghost soon. This is my first time writing a post so go easy on me with the comments and tell me what you guys think of my opinion.

3 Comments

Hotarµ2 votes

He definitely needs some love taps. He's got that weird early champion feel to him. You know the one.

None of his skills feel that fluid to use or chain together, his spellshield gives attack speed even though his kit is a mix of Assassin/Fighter which is just odd to work around since he doesn't have any form of escape like Yasuo, Lee Sin, Tryndamere, or Jax.

Overall I'd say they need to just give him a niche and base his kit around it. He's spread wayyyy too thin right now.

I think it'd be cool for him to be focused on vision denial, either through clearing wards or permanently shrouding areas of the map. He could also make shadow clones of himself like that thing Leblanc used to do, send out a clone just to scare and bait people into flashing or running away. That'd be pretty neat and thematic.

BakutoNinja471 votes

I'm happy you agree with me bud and I like your ideas however there is too much champs with that clone thingy such as Shaco Neeko and so on but he can do something like spreading nocturnes around the map that deny vision and explode when revealed such as little dark demon minions. That vision denial seems very useful such as destroying Teemo shrooms and other things like that which would make him a good pick for that.

Hotarµ2 votes

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I'm happy you agree with me bud and I like your ideas however there is too much champs with that clone thingy such as Shaco Neeko and so on but he can do something like spreading nocturnes around the map that deny vision and explode when revealed such as little dark demon minions. That vision denial seems very useful such as destroying Teemo shrooms and other things like that which would make him a good pick for that.

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Nocturne is a pretty cool champion. I won't lie, when his ult goes off it does do a pretty good job of making everyone panic, the rest of his kit just doesn't match up unfortunately. I'd love to see him get a rework, hopefully it comes soon!

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