Nocturne needs more than just a buff to his ultimate's cooldown. Buff Umbra Blades a little bit.

darkdill·Mar 12, 2015·2 votes·474 views

Whenever you jungle as Nocturne, one thing is certain: Umbra Blades isn't going to keep you sustained. Until you have a Vampiric Scepter, you are going to be recalling a lot and getting smacked up by jungle camps pretty hard in the meantime.

Add onto that that the tooltip for Umbra Blades doesn't even tell you how much you heal for each enemy hit, and you are left with a severe inconvenience when you can't calculate if you can survive a camp or not. Really annoying.

Can you make Nocturne's passive a tad more effective? It shouldn't make his laning any better, because using it optimally will require pushing.

4 Comments

DreadlocksMar 12, 20152 votes

I never have a problem with sustain when i jungle Nocturne. Can you explain your jungle route and runes/masteries, because sustain shouldn't be that big of an issue. Also to add to your post, they are reducing some of the damage the camps do in the jungle this coming up patch so that should help.

darkdillMar 12, 20151 votes

AS marks, AS glyphs, flat armor yellows, ArPen quints

21/9/0 masteries

I start either Gromp or Krug, depending on side (get leash from bot lane). Path depends from there, but I always try to go red camp third so I can Smite it for health.

DreadlocksMar 12, 20151 votes

First off, you would benefit a lot more if you put the armor pen on your reds and the attack speed on the quints. HOWEVER, I strongly recommend you try the following:

AS reds (or damage) / flat armor yellows / CDR per lvl blues / AS quints Smite Krugs or Gromp, depending on the side, do red/blue 2nd, then take crab in river, if you started krugs your auto will stun the crab and it will then take more damage and you won't have to chase it. Proceed to finish the side of the jungler then back only needing to smite ONCE.

Doing the crab helps with HP regen and you get 50 gold which can be the difference between getting 2 health pots on first back or not. Hope this helps.

edit: also ur 2nd skill point should be W

WolfChasesMar 12, 20152 votes

No he doesen't need any more buffs because I don't want him to get nerfed to oblivion if he becomes FOTM. He is fine and will be fine with this buff and that's all.

As for sustain, that's not the problem since I can clear GOLEMS (smite) > RED > BLUE (smite) > Wolves > BACK with 2 potions.