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Spells:
Exhaust
Smite
Ability Order
Umbra Blades (PASSIVE)
Nocturne Passive Ability
Introduction, The nightmare begins.
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When I started to play League of Legends I saw a friend playing



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Pros
+ Amazing Jungler + Epic Ganks + Great assassin + Quite tanky + Hard to kill + Is a Nightmare for the other team |
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Cons
- High Mana cost - Hard to master - Have to gank early - Ult has short range - Kinda squishy early |

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Explanations here below.

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You're going to want to max out



- Use
Duskbringer to chase and damage targets, it will give you enough movement speed to catch up to almost anyone.
- You can use it defensively as well, just cast it in front of you to get away faster.
- Use it to clear the jungle camps faster.

You're going to want to max out



- If you see
Karthus channeling
Requiem wait 1 second and then activate
Shroud of Darkness, it will block all the damage and you will receive the attack speed boost.
- Use it when you engage, but wait to activate it until you can see a spell going towards you, like
Dark Binding or Finales Funkeln
- It will also block the knock up effect from
Baron Nashor, meaning you will get the attack speed buff and you can take it faster



You're going to want to max out


- If you see that
Nunu & Willump is channeling his
Absolute Zero tag him with this, it will fear him before he can get the full damage from it.
- If you can get up
Shroud of Darkness just before
Galio uses
Idol of Durand you can tag him as well with it, and it will stop the taunt on everyone affected by it.
- You can also use it to escape tricky situations, as it will fear them for 2 seconds (if maxed).




You're going to want to level it up at levels 6/11/16.
- This is a godlike tool for ganking, letting you walk right by wards and then dash onto a champion, even tho its short range it's still one of the most feared ultimates in the game, as you know not where he will appear.
- If you have a
Twisted Fate use
Paranoia to prevent they detecting where he appears, you can also talk to him about ganking a lane, as those getting ganked will not expect it, do it only once or twice, then when he goes to ult bot you go to gank top, it will confuse their team a lot.
- This skill also works defensively, as it will let you juke them even harder during those 3 seconds, meaning you can run past their towers to get to safety.
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- These will be your early to mid game boots, as they will only be useful for you there. I take these because you will get a much needed early attack speed boost.

- The standard core item for a lot of junglers,
Nocturne is no different, it will give you a free ward every three minutes, and it will also give you the only life steal you will get, this item should be sold if you get to late game to give space to better items.

- This item will give you some armor penetration, and it is an item that is most useful early to mid game, but I still use it late game, as the little armor penetration it gives doesn't hurt, and it also provides some Cdr which is quite useful as well.

- This is a great item for
Nocturne as with his
Duskbringer there will be almost no one that can escape you, it also gives you some extra HP much needed for you to tank more enemies.

- This will give you some defense against their AP carrys, it will also boost your attack speed with 40%, when you get these you should also change your
Berserker's Greaves to
Mercury's Treads, as you will lose almost nothing in attack speed, but only gain magic resist.

- One of the most Op items in the entire game, it will reduce the attack speed of all the surrounding enemies, and the movement speed. Its passive is almost equally as op, it will punish anyone who hits you with a 20% chance of slowing the attackers movement and attack speed with 35%, meaning they won't want to hit you even the slightest if they want a chance to win that teamfight.

- These boots will reduce the magic damage you take, and it will also reduce incoming crowd control effects by 20%, this plus the mastery
Juggernaut will make it almost useless throwing a stun at you. That's the reason I have to why you should swap from
Berserker's Greaves to
Mercury's Treads when you reach late game and teamfights get more and more frequent.

- This item is a lifesaver, it will save you against ults like
Requiem and Finales Funkeln, but if you have mana for it you should rather use
Shroud of Darkness as I've saved my self countless of times using it. Its passive spell will give you more ad based on how low Hp you have.
Item Sequence











- This is a great item, but it is mainly a support item. The only reason I would take this item on
Nocturne would be if you had no real support, but you have someone which can tank better then you, or you need to go more damage.
- Item to swap with:
Randuin's Omen, get it around
Frozen Mallet instead of after
Wit's End.

- This item works like your
Shroud of Darkness without the attack speed boost, a thing to notice is that your
Shroud of Darkness and
Banshee's Veil doesn't stack, so if you activate
Shroud of Darkness and you deflect a spell, both will be disabled.
- Item to swap with:
Maw of Malmortius, take it if you need more magic resist, health and mana, also if they have a high burst champion like
LeBlanc or
Veigar.

- This is a great item if you need both health and armor, it also has a nice passive, dealing 40 magic damage per second to nearby enemies, meaning it works like
Amumu's
Despair.
- Item to swap:
Maw of Malmortius, take it when you need health and armor, and the need for magic resist isn't that big.

- This is a great item if you need health and health regeneration, it will give you a total of 1270 extra Hp when it's fully stacked, and the health regeneration when full stacked is at 40 per 5 sec, this works great with
Force of Nature.
- Item to swap:
Frozen Mallet, take it at the same time as you would take
Frozen Mallet, if you take this item, you should take
Force of Nature to max both of them.

- This is a great item if you need both Magic resist and Health regeneration, it's mostly used on pure tanks, as it gives such high Health regeneration and Magic resist.
- Item to swap:
Randuin's Omen, you should take this if you need the magic resist, or you are getting
Warmog's Armor as the Health regeneration will be through the roof.

- This is an anti-tank item, as it does percentage magic damage based on their max HP, some carrys like
Tristana and
Kog'Maw use this item with great success.
- Item to swap:
Wit's End, even tho this is much more expensive it is a great item, especially if their tank is stacking health and no magic resist, this item will make them regret getting that much hp.





If you are having trouble getting of that level 2 gank you can go from behind your tower and into the bush, as long as their minions can't see you they will not know you are there. Other wise you can go from the wraiths into tri-bush and then into their lane coming from behind. (remember: this is when you are the team that is on the upper side of the map).
When ganking mid it's a bit harder to gank, as the lane is a lot shorter than the other lanes, one thing you can do is come from the side of the bush and enter behind them, this will not work as well if they have


Top is really easy to gank too, you can apply the same technique you did on bot lane on top.




Smite is a standard choice for all the junglers, most could make it without it, but it's not for their clear time you should take it, it's so that you can secure buffs like, blue and red also
Dragon and
Baron Nashor, always take
Smite when you jungle.

- The reason I take
Exhaust over
Flash, is that it helps your early ganks and late game team fighting, it will help you shut down their ad carrys, it will also help you counter jungle a little bit safer, as you will probably run into their jungler some time, and it will help you kill them or get away easier from them.

Flash is viable on
Nocturne, it will help you escape over walls and it will also help you chase over walls, if you take
Flash you should know that you have less killing power on their carrys and it will let them escape a little easier, that is why I take
Exhaust instead of
Flash

Ghost is also a viable spell on
Nocturne as it will boost your ganking potential pre 6, but not as much as
Exhaust,
Ghost will help you chase targets easier, and it will also help you escape from them easier as well, I'd still take
Exhaust over
Ghost as it gives you much more killing power than
Flash or
Ghost.

When you initiate this is the spell combo you should use.




When initiating a fight you want to aim for someone that is not sitting in between their tanks , as that is a death sentence. The reason you should activate


When you are going in last




The combo is still the same, but this time you make sure that you enter last, as it means there will be no focus on you so that you can focus their Ad or Ap carry
When you are going in for their carry, you must first know if their bruizers is going for your carry, if they are, go and defend your carry. If they are busy trying to get past your tank, go for their carry, if you scare away theirs they will lose that fight. If their kill yours, you will lose.
A good combo for scaring away their carry is the same as the above, but you can throw in





Here is a tip:
Make sure that you ward around the areas where teamfights appear, it might give you an opportunity to kill their Ad carry when the rest of their team is busy.
Optional combos.












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This game was quite difficult for me, I made some bad moves and I got counter jungled at level 1 by their team so



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