Any ranged or hero with decent sustain, especially ones that can kite.
I've run support Naut quite a bit recently, he has an incredible amount of CC, if you have a jungler like Nocturne its free kills down bot. I've been experimenting with maxing E first, huge slow and does a ton of base damage if you get multiple hits. The only problem I find with Blitz and Naut is if your carry is dumb you don't have the sustain of Soraka or something like Janna's ult to make a clutch save.
I've done well running running Kennen against Darius, pick up a revolver for sustain, get a Rylais' and build a Zhonya's.
So I've played Draven a bit. First thought: His ult is friggin awesome. I wouldn't go so far as OP, but it is amazing for picking off people running away with low health. I have a feeling they will eventually have to make some changes.
He seems to be a great pusher, but otherwise his Q is really kind of a pain to actually use in practice and any character going against him that can bump him off track (like Alistar, trist, etc) pretty much will screw him up.
Anyone else having fps issues since the patch? I had to lower everything and it still drops to really low frames during fights...
After getting some time in with Darius, my opinion is that he's an insanely ridiculous champion with terrible design. His Q does almost absurd amounts of damage and that refresh ult thing is ridiculous.
I have not been impressed with any Darius I've played with/against (mostly against), and that's the general consensus I'm seeing. He has no way to get into a fight quick or get out if needed. And he has no sustain or defense. So he's a more damaging Garen without an on-demand speed boost or the defense/sustain.
He's easily shut down in lane by any number of bad matchups. And if the matchup is in his favor, just let him push the lane and have your jungle gank. He'll have to blow flash or it's an almost guaranteed kill.
I've been loving jungle Noc - 1 loss out of 10, in which I was doing well but the typical can't carry the weight of the whole team. But the nerf to his passive heal is an impact to his jungle. I've been going boots + 3 start and before the nerf I could do a full jungle run and end up with about 1/2 health after red. After the nerf it's more like 1/5th and I usually recall to grab some LS which lets me then jungle indefinitely. I run him with MVSPD quints because being able to go 380 normally and 400+ on his trail makes his ganks that much stronger. But I supposed I can sacrifice that 4% extra MVSPD in favor of LS quints. I just have to get the IP to buy them.
Do your games with jungle noc typically play out fully or do they usually end in surrenders relatively quickly? I've found when I used to run Nocturne that once it passes the 35~40 minute mark of the game I have to have built so much in the way of tanky items otherwise I can't effectively initiate fights unless all of my lanes had been winning by large margins prior to forcing team fights. Great ganker though, especially at 6!
Noc is a fighter not a carry. He generally cannot hyper carry his team unless hes fed some ridiculous amount compared to the rest of the players.
I find MS quints un-needed on Noc. His trail ability combined with the phage that most Noc's buy and your fear make the extra 20 MS pointless.
I wouldn't really say he's a strong assassin, and he typically is utilized as an initiator later on in the game as his Ult's denial of vision makes people typically panick and just start spamming abilities on the first target that comes into view (Nocturne).
You also listed tanky initiators that do this better than Noc, but all of them are also typically junglers which is no longer an option as you're doing that as Nocturne. Typically top laners and junglers are expected to be initiators/capable of initiation due to their innately tanky natures.
And I've been wondering how people feel about Draven a few days after his launch. I feel like picking up a new champ but I already own most of the champs I want, Draven is new-ish enough that I'm curious. Is he worth the pick-up? I tend to play top lane currently and while I use to play ad bot a LOT, I tend to find that a pretty boring lane nowadays :/
I don't know about that initiator bit but he is good for diving onto their carry without being peeled once teamfights start. The best Nocturn's I see don't initiate with ult since at best you usually just blow flash.
I never initiate with Ult. The flashes are too annoying.
However, I do love taking clairvoyance with Noct and using it to get kills when people run and hide. Its hilarious.
Noc is definitely not an assassin in the traditional sense of the word. He doesnt have burst that can take down carries instantly. Hes a fighter that has an amazing gas closing ult
Well a new (sort of) map is going to be coming in the next few patches, possibly the very next one. If any of you have done the tutorials for LoL, then you've played on The Proving Grounds as Ashe (just a really long bridge). They've decided to allow its use for custom games!
Similar to Dominion mode you'll start off at level 3 and naturally gain a large amount of XP and gold, health relics also spawn at positions on the map, recalling is disabled, specific items are enabled/disabled. The map has been visually touched up a bit as well as added objects (towers and inhibitors), also worth noting that the platform does not heal and you cannot buy items once you have left the base until you have died again (still has the laser from SR though). Currently playable on the PBE if anyone is too curious to wait for its debut on the live servers.
Also coming in the patch will be a bunch of re-done portraits/art for a large group of champions and a slightly new way of choosing Summoner Spells.
Riot is also removing ELO loss on dodges sometime in the next month. They reason that ELO is a measure of skill (haha) and a dodge should not have an effect on it. So they're removing it and are going to use a different, as of yet mysterious, form of punishment. I assume that will still be in addition to the dodge timer penalty.
Ooh, I'm stoked, I (admittedly) love reworked champion models, adds a level of freshness. Is the bridge map just gonna be 1v1 or what?