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 Plated Steelcaps and Frozen Heart. For your last 3 items, you should build Kaenic Rookern, Zeke's Convergence and finish with Serpent's Fang. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 57.5% winrate over 569 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Nocturne Top 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, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence 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 Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Black Cleaver as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Frozen Heart, Kaenic Rookern and Guardian Angel. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.7% win rate over 148 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Eyeball Collection with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Stridebreaker as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Experimental Hexplate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Frozen Heart, Black Cleaver and Sterak's Gage. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 48.5% win rate across 68 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Nocturne Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Nimbus Cloak with Celerity as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Phantom Dancer as third item. The last 3 options are Hullbreaker, Rapid Firecannon and Stridebreaker. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 45.8% win rate over 59 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.