Nocturne·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Nocturne Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Jack Of All Trades 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 Stridebreaker as your first item, followed by Mercury's Treads and Frozen Heart. For your last 3 items, you should build Kaenic Rookern, Zeke's Convergence and finish with Jak'Sho, The Protean. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 59.8% winrate over 117 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Nocturne Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Eyeball Collection with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Stridebreaker, which you should build first, followed by Mercury's Treads as your second item and Experimental Hexplate as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Black Cleaver, Eclipse and Sterak's Gage. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.7% win rate over 64 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Hail of Blades as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Coup de Grace with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Tenacity and Slow Resist as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, then Boots as a second item and Lord Dominik's Regards as a third item. You want to finish the build with The Collector, Phantom Dancer and Infinity Edge. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 59.6% win rate across 52 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.