This is my first build but after testing out this build many times I believe that it is the perfect build for nocturne. It focuses on early game survivability, but finishes strong with crit chance and lifesteal. If you have a game go long enough, you will end up with over 2.0 attack speed with 97% crit chance and 35% life steal.

Please do not criticize until you try out the build. It seems to work well for me but I would like some constructive criticism to improve the build if need be.

3/18 Started Guide
3/20 Fixed Problems and Added More Info
3/22 Added History and Rewrote the Jungle Guide

OBSERVATION

The Field Architect has had a long day. Surveying the grounds for signs of degradation is no small task; taking readings every five feet is essential in order to detect even the slightest disturbances in the intricate energy fields. An overlooked spike in the surrounding forces could set off a chain reaction of destruction due to the rampant use of magic on the Fields of Justice. In his own little way, he liked to think that he was saving Runeterra one checkpoint at a time.

His work complete, the architect makes his way back to the summoning platform, where he passes a nexus that should have been dormant. An unbidden spark inside the nexus catches his eye. He turns to investigate only to be struck by a wild burst of energy arcing out of the nexus. The architect collapses to the floor in a heap, sprawling on the unforgiving cobblestone.

His body shrivels as a noxious trail of thick smoke pours out of his open mouth. It is shivering with life and pulsing with horrors.

It is born of nightmares.

REFLECTION

Nocturne had drifted through the minds of humans for endless expanses of time. He beheld the faces they yearned for, absorbed the desires that coursed through their veins, and inhabited the fantasies that set their hearts ablaze. He lingered within the despicably human illusions they conjured in the narrow expanse that was their puny brains.

From all of them, he consumed the magic that rippled through their souls.

Nocturne had only a moment to examine his newfound physical form before a circle of robed summoners appeared around him. He knew who they were before they even revealed themselves. These were the overlords whose faces consumed each mind of every summoner whose dreams he haunted. They were the voices that drenched lesser kinds with promises of great power, and they were the hands that directed the ebb and flow of the entire world. Nocturne knew what these humans wanted, but they would not get him.

His shadowed form ghosted silently toward one of the humans, reaching out with the ethereal tendrils of his consciousness. The cloaked human spasmed as his hands rose to tear at his own head. A bloodcurdling scream ripped through the air, then choked off into silence as the human's mind collapsed into itself.

The other humans barely had a chance to react before Nocturne was on them. He reached out with his limbs as twin blades extended forth from his arms to rend human flesh from bone. The shadow darted low and slashed upwards with his blades, impaling an unfortunate summoner through the entire length of his body.

Nocturne felt a group of humans rush up from behind; for a second, his form pulsed. Darkness smothered the entire field, an oppressive blackness that breathed and sighed. Victims eternally trapped in the phantasm murmured in the summoners' ears, promising eternal torment and pleading for release. Disembodied hands clawed at the living, desperate to rip any semblance of existence away for their own keeping.

The remaining summoners lashed out, flailing against the ghastly fingers that only disappeared long enough to reappear again in greater numbers. Spell incantations decayed on their lips as the magical energies refused to heed their call. The darkness began to suffocate the humans, and they clawed at their eyes in a wild attempt to regain their sight. Devoured by terror, they didn't even sense Nocturne's approach, nor did they feel the blades that cleaved through their soft bodies and condemned their souls to an eternity in the darkness.

One summoner had stood apart from the others. He was decorated with gold chains draped over purple robes. Unaffected by the blindness and horrors, he had chosen to observe impassively as the carnage unfurled. No expression flickered over his face as the pooled blood stained the hem of his robes, nor did his visage change when the dismembered head of his former comrade bumped up against his leg.

The summoner spoke. "Impressive. I see that the eons you've spent leeching off of our minds have managed to serve some purpose."

"I know who you are." Nocturne returned.

"I'm flattered." The summoner sneered. "Then you should also know that it is time you repay us for the horrors you have wrought upon our kind."

"And how do you plan to do that, human?" A monstrous howl echoed from the shadows, something akin to what those humans called a laugh.

"You are now in the world of our control. And you shall be in our service."

"You call this pitiful existence 'payment'?" A flick of Nocturne's hideous blade sent a pile of steaming entrails splattering across the ground. He readied the jagged edge for this last foolish one. "You may have conjured me into your world somehow, but all you will receive is destruction."

With a roar, Nocturne heaved himself at the summoner. His blood-soaked blade came within a razor's width of carving that aggravating smirk off the human's face. Metal circled around his wrists, clanging shut, and sent him flying backwards into a heap of metal chains.

"No. This is your reparation." The summoner's lips parted, wet with anticipation. "Welcome to the League."

The summoners whose bodies lay in a pile around him raised their heads. Their arms shot out and clamped onto Nocturne with an iron grip. They dragged him downward, forcing his physical existence into submission. Every part of him screamed out against the shackles as he involuntarily bowed to the towering head summoner. Nocturne was now in service to the League, and it was his own eternal nightmare.

For Runes I have chosen

9 Greater Mark of Desolation
9 Greater Seal of Armor
9 Greater Glyph of Attack Speed
2 Greater Quintessence of Desolation
1 Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed

These runes are the prefect runes to make it through the jungle the fastest and most efficient only needing 1 hp pot.

For masteries I have chosen 16/0/14.

Obviously you need these for the extended buffs, increased xp, and increased armor pen.

When you first start out you need to grab a Vampiric Scepter. (See jungle runs for more details)



Then on the first trip back grab a Cloth Armor and 1 .



Then finish Madred's Razors and turn that into a Wriggle's Lantern.



Then purchase Berserker's Greaves.



Then you should pick up an Avarice Blade for the crit chance and increased gold.



Then get a Frozen Mallet because it greatly increases early game survivability.



Next should be a Zeal followed by an Infinity Edge



Then turn your Avarice Blade into a Youmuu's Ghostblade.



Then turn your Zeal into a Phantom Dancer and then sell your Wriggles Lantern for Bloodthirster.



If the game is still going, sell your Berserker's Greaves and get another Phantom Dancer.



This build will end with 25% lifesteal and 97% crit chance with crazy damage output.

Visit this link to watch how to jungle with Nocturne

http://www.youtube.com/user/stonewall008#p/u/1/q7Z3fuV0PIY

First start at the wolf camp with only a Vampiric Scepter. Open up with Duskbringer and focus the big wolf. Use Duskbringer once more and AA til all are dead.

Then head to the wraiths. Smite the blue one and then use Duskbringer on the other three. Then AA until all are dead. After using smite on the blue one, use a skill point on Shroud of Darkness.

Next head to the two golems and open up with Duskbringer making sure to hit both of them. Continue to AA them until they are dead, using Duskbringer whenever it isn't on CD. When both are dead, put your skill point in Duskbringer and go home to purchase Cloth Armor and 1 .

Next head to blue buff and open up with Duskbringer and then AA and Smite once he is almost dead.

Now you just continue through the jungle from blue - wolfs - wraiths once again. While attacking wolfs use your .

After wraiths you will have Smite back so continue to red buff. Kill it the same way as blue except now you will be able to use Unspeakable Horror aswell.

Head on to golems and you should now go home and finish madreds, get wriggles, and start on boots. Now you should be ready to gank your lanes.