Nocturne·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Nocturne Mid build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Lethal Tempo as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Profane Hydra as your first item, followed by Mercury's Treads and Experimental Hexplate. For your last 3 items, you should build Eclipse, Edge of Night and finish with Maw of Malmortius. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 52.2% winrate over 92 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Presence of Mind with Coup de Grace in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Profane Hydra as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Axiom Arc as a third item. You want to finish the build with The Collector, Serylda's Grudge and Opportunity. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.5% win rate across 59 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Nocturne Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Triple Tonic with Biscuit Delivery as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Stridebreaker as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Black Cleaver as third item. The last 3 options are Death's Dance, Maw of Malmortius and Guardian Angel. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 64.2% win rate over 53 matches played.

Situational Nocturne Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Nocturne build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.