Nocturne mains sitting on a 28% AFK rate

Sheogowrath·2/4/2018, 2:11:20 AM·48 votes·4,474 views
Afk stats - League of Legends

So I was preening myself, looking at my ranked statistics online after a hard fought victory to extend my 4 game win streak. I soon found myself perusing the general NA statistics, and thereafter stumbled across a statistic that had me saying to myself "Holy sh*t, this cannot be real!"

Apparently, players who main Nocturne have a 28.69% afk rate in North America. By comparison, the second highest afk rate sits at a mere 8.93% (Heimerdinger mains), and the lowest sits at 2.66% (Elise mains).

Wtf is going on here?

The first logical conclusion is that Nocturne mains are hands down the most toxic players on the continent. However, as much as this tickles my funny bone, that doesn't ring true in my personal experience. It's the mid-laners and ADCs that tend to be feeding flamers. Therefore something unnatural has to be going on here which is causing the statistic to be skewed.

My second thought is bots. For those of you who are unaware, the league currently has a 'black market' where people can purchase fully leveled accounts online for real money. Individuals selling these acounts power-level them by setting up macro-programs to automate their champions through games so they don't get kicked by the leaver-buster and still get xp.

Is it possible that bot users are primarily using Nocturne to farm xp for some reason? If so, could these bots actually be inflating Noturne's loss rate? Could Nocturne actually be slightly overpowered, rather than slightly underpowered as his winrate suggests? The ramifications are fascinating.

Does anyone one have any other theories? This is a truly bizarre finding.

*It's worth mentioning that this is not a global thing. This applies specifically to NA. *And support mains are clustered at the bottom of the afk rate chart ;)

35 Comments

Aatroxs Legacy2/4/2018, 2:36:12 AM40 votes

Iwas expecting Draven mains to have a high AFK rate.

A Nunu2/4/2018, 3:00:51 AM36 votes

I'm disappointed right now. I thought my Nunu clan would be at least 10x as more toxic than they actually were..

FOR JUSTICE2/4/2018, 2:16:35 AM31 votes

we have afk rates as a stat???

Cocho2/4/2018, 7:27:36 AM23 votes

simple.

There's like 3 people who actually main this remnant of the past.

One of which is really toxic.

AIIan2/4/2018, 11:21:38 AM14 votes

My guess : there's actually only four Nocturne mains in the entire NA region and one of them is a toxic waste. Boom, 28% explained.

inb4 a Rioter confirms upcoming Nocturne's rework "because nobody plays him" (AurelionSol rework when ?).

Herald Est Mors2/4/2018, 4:40:31 AM9 votes

I used to play Nocturne back in season 6 before I got perma'd on an old account. Nocturne is a champion that requires certain requirements to have use in a game. If the enemy team has 3 tanks, he becomes useless. His damage is lacking, still, and new runes don't help him as much as full AD runes used to. People probably pick Noct, thinking he is cool, read his kit, think its pretty cool, then lose fights early to every champion out there. Nocturne needs a rework, and people AFK because he becomes 100% useless if his team is behind, or if his laners don't follow up his ganks. People normally afk when their team fails them, and if this happens, it hits Noct hard. This is from personal experience, with around 250000 mastery points of nonstop losing games with 3 tanks, or a butt team. hope this helps explain the afk rate.

FireDrizzle2/4/2018, 7:54:46 AM8 votes

You have to turn the power off on your pc sometimes to achieve the level of darkness that a Nocturne main aspires to. no! A level of darkness that a Nocturne maIn embodies and personifies!

Faustavian2/4/2018, 2:30:35 PM7 votes

I guess you can say they tend to...

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Ghost..

Pumping Iron2/4/2018, 12:10:42 PM6 votes

zed, syndra, talon, yasuo in top 10 who would've guessed

Handy Sandy 2/4/2018, 3:36:14 AM4 votes

Could Nocturne actually be slightly overpowered, rather than slightly underpowered as his winrate suggests?

I do think he is, if you're a squishy who's alone being ulted by him is pretty much certain death once he's got his item 3147. The only way to stop this is to have a maokai by your side, breaking his spellshield and ccing him permanently. He's not needing any nerfs compared to how bad of a state other champions are in currently but he could use a little more counterplay in his kit.

Zed genius2/4/2018, 4:20:17 PM3 votes

The craziest part is the zed mains tbh. Yeah nocturne mains who are about 5 or 7 people have an insane afk rate, but an 8% afk rate from a champions that is mained by literally thousands of people..damn

Ahri Baka2/5/2018, 4:05:04 AM3 votes

It's Karma , their Internet or electricity went down , Nocturne mains deserve it for turning off lights on us for years everytime they Ult

JoeMG2/5/2018, 5:26:38 AM2 votes

As an NA Nocturne main, this saddens me.

Neckoe2/4/2018, 9:13:19 AM1 votes

I actually thought it was Riven

General Esdeath 2/4/2018, 5:52:17 AM1 votes

The winrate thing makes no sense since most websites take statistics from ranked only

Nøctμrne2/4/2018, 5:30:25 AM1 votes

I am a Nocturne main and I am toxic, albeit a good toxic but that's an opinion and opinions don't matter

iBubster2/4/2018, 5:23:47 AM1 votes

Draven mains tilt a lot tho when they drop axes or lose stacks or something.