Nocturne: LoL Arena Champion | ArenaSweats Wiki

This article covers how Nocturne plays in League of Legends Arena: interactions, bugs and patch changes. Builds and statistics are on Nocturne's ArenaSweats Pages build.

Overview

Arena changes

I: Cooldown changed to 9 seconds.
W: Cooldown changed to 18 to 10 seconds.²

ArenaSweats stats

2026 Season 3 Act 2, all regions

ArenaSweats tierDiamond

Top 3 %: 53.0%
Avg place: 3.38
Pick %: 9.14%
Ban %: 2.55%
Games: 169,971

Most picked augments

Full stats on ArenaSweats PagesFrom ranked Arena games tracked by ArenaSweats, updated 6 Nov 2026.

Tips

Nocturne scales really well with attack speed builds.³
A full crit build with Fan the Hammer is an option for Nocturne. Master of Duality or Raid Boss with a sustain-focused build is another option.⁴
Pairing two bruiser items, often Death's Dance and Maw of Malmortius and sometimes Guardian Angel, with Plated Steelcaps or Mercury's Treads can make Nocturne tankier than a full damage build while leaving three item slots for damage.⁵

Interactions

Nocturne's Guest of Honor grants wall walking inside its three darkness zones, which have no terrain.⁶⁷⁸⁹
A team with Nocturne, Fiddlesticks, and Twitch can use Nocturne's ultimate to let Fiddlesticks fear opponents from anywhere while Twitch attacks unseen from range.¹⁰
Nocturne's darkness zones can make teammates invisible as well, preventing players from seeing their own team.¹¹

Bugs

A Nocturne Guest of Honor effect left only health bars visible before the player died.¹²¹³¹⁴
The Guest of Honor effect could make fights disappear when a champion stepped just outside the darkness, and it could be unclear whether a champion was inside the cloud and stealthed from those outside it.¹⁵
A Nocturne darkness cloud could leave a teammate's screen stuck for two rounds before it returned to normal.¹⁶
Entering Nocturne's cloud could make enemies invisible instead of making the player invisible.¹⁷
A Nocturne-related screen glitch could leave the screen stuck while movement and abilities remained usable.¹⁸

History

Since patch 26.13, Nocturne's Guest of Honor grants wall walking inside three darkness zones.⁷⁶

Riot patch notes that name Nocturne, newest first

Patch	Date	Changes
26.15	28 Jul 2026	Passive - Umbra Blades Base Healing: 13 minimum / 32 maximum ⇒ 15 minimum / 50 maximum Attack Damage Ratio: 120% ⇒ 130% Critical Strike Attack Damage Ratio: 110% ⇒ 120% R - Paranoia Cooldown: 140 / 115 / 90 ⇒ 100 / 70 / 40¹⁹
26.13	23 Jun 2026	Now grants wall walking while inside the darkness zones. Number of zones: 1 - 3 ⇒ 3²⁰
26.12	9 Jun 2026	Passive Cooldown: 12 ⇒ 9s W Cooldown: 20s-12s ⇒ 18-10s²¹

Earlier formats

Nocturne's passive worked with Spin to Win.²² 8x2 duos
Nocturne's ultimate could affect champions in a separate Death Realm and remove Edge of Night from a champion there; this interaction may have been fixed.²³ 8x2 duos
Nocturne's ultimate could affect other teams inside Mordekaiser's Guest of Honor effect.²⁴ 8x2 duos
Nocturne could use his spell shield as an incoming hit landed.²⁵ 8x2 duos

Sources

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League WikiCommunityDragon, https://raw.communitydragon.org/latest/plugins/rcp-be-lol-game-data/global/default/v1/champion-summary.json

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Roles (CommunityDragon): fighter, assassin
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Arena changes (wiki): I: Cooldown changed to 9 seconds. W: Cooldown changed to 18 to 10 seconds.
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League WikiLeague of Legends Wiki: Arena > Mode-Specific Changes > List of mode overrides

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Nocturne | Umbra Blades Cooldown changed to 9 seconds. Shroud of Darkness Cooldown changed to 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 seconds.
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RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.13 Notes > Arena > Guests of Honor

Posted 23 Jun 2026

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Nocturne Now grants wall walking while inside the darkness zones. Number of zones: 1 - 3 ⇒ 3
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RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.15 Notes > Arena > Champions

Posted 28 Jul 2026

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Nocturne Passive - Umbra Blades Base Healing: 13 minimum / 32 maximum ⇒ 15 minimum / 50 maximum Attack Damage Ratio: 120% ⇒ 130% Critical Strike Attack Damage Ratio: 110% ⇒ 120% R - Paranoia Cooldown: 140 / 115 / 90 ⇒ 100 / 70 / 40
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RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.13 Notes > Arena > Items

Posted 23 Jun 2026

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Nocturne Now grants wall walking while inside the darkness zones. Number of zones: 1 - 3 ⇒ 3
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RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.12 Notes > Arena > Champions

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Nocturne Passive Cooldown: 12 ⇒ 9s W Cooldown: 20s-12s ⇒ 18-10s
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