Nocturne·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Nocturne Top 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 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, Serpent's Fang and finish with Zeke's Convergence. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 51.9% winrate over 426 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Stridebreaker as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Experimental Hexplate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Black Cleaver, Randuin's Omen and Jak'Sho, The Protean. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 52.4% win rate across 63 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.