Nocturne Jungle Build, Best Paths & Clearing Guide for Patch 26.7
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RDiscover the best Nocturne jungle build for League of Legends Patch 26.7. Learn optimal jungle paths, Nocturne build runes & items, skill order, counters and explore our pathing guide to maximize your winrate in the Season 16 meta.
Runes Nocturne Build
Precision
Domination
Summoner Spells
Spell Leveling Priority
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Items Nocturne Build
Early Items
Full Build
Spell Leveling Order
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 7
- 9
- 2
- 14
- 15
- 17
- 18
- 4
- 8
- 10
- 12
- 13
- 6
- 11
- 16
Jungle Trends
Highest Winrate First Camp
Raptors (52.5%)
Most Popular First Camp
Blue Sentinel (56%)
Top 3 Highest Winrate Paths
Top 3 Highest Popularity Paths
Nocturne Tips and Tricks
- Nocturne is a strong solo queue champion thanks to a spell kit that lets him duel most enemy junglers, invade, and gank as early as level three. Though, his main weakness is facing a well-coordinated enemy team.
- Umbra Blades and Duskbringer allow Nocturne to farm jungle camps with ease while being an ever-present threat to all enemy lanes due to Paranoia. Even if you're not in range to dash towards an enemy with Paranoia, it can still be worth to cast it in order to obstruct an enemy's vision and make them panic. This can help your teammates to pick off a target, or run away if they're in immediate danger.
- Duskbringer's path grants bonus movement speed which can come in handy when you're chasing, or running from enemies. It also grants a substantial amount of bonus attack damage which increases Nocturne's damage to Turrets.
- The proper use of Shroud of Darkness can turn fights in your favor because it can be used to block a dangerous spell that could finish you off or cause a lot of crowd control.
Nocturne Matchups
Nocturne Jungle Pathing Guide
Jungle Pathing represents the choices jungle players make in regards to when and where to gank, invade or just path towards. It includes how camps and buffs are cleared between ganks, anticipating counterganks, and spotting opportunities for invading. Effective pathing requires deep understanding of your champion's abilities, their interactions, and how both team compositions play into those choices.
Full clear with a Red Buff start
The recommended jungle path for Nocturne is a full clear starting at Red Brambleback with Duskbringer for an AD boost if you stand in the shroud, although starting [W] is a viable choice as well. At level two, unlock Shroud of Darkness if you haven't, since it gives you a decent chunk of bonus attack speed, then clear Krugs and Raptors. These give level three, where you take Unspeakable Horror for crowd control and dueling strength if a fight breaks out. From there, move to Wolves, Gromp and Blue Buff to reach level four, upgrading Duskbringer before contesting the Rift Scuttler.
It's also possible to start Raptors instead, and then go for Krugs followed by Red Buff. This provides longer Red Buff uptime for the rest of the clear but is more prone to Red Buff invades if the enemy jungler knows you started Raptors.
Nocturne's early gank threat comes online at level three with the Unspeakable Horror fear, but he excels more at power farming to reach level six.