+ Strong at the early game
+ Nocturne is difficult to counter jungle
+ Easy to master
+ Good in teamfight with blinding with Paranoia
+ Powerful 1 vs 1
+ Has target fear
+ Has a spell shield, a very useful thing

- Weak at the late game
- Bad if fall behind
- Zhonya's Hourglass counters him very much
- Deals AD damage
- Kiteable
- Can't kill the target quickly

Lethal Tempo gives a lot of attack speed, which makes it easy to duel for a Rift Scuttler with most champs. Also, since you will have more attack speed, as your Umbra Blades will heal you more and you will deal more damage at the early game with Duskbringer's AD boost than with Conqueror. I advise you to buy Blade of the Ruined King and Wit's End, because it will be effective with Lethal Tempo.
However, the Conqueror is more powerful in mid-late game, where healing and AD from it will be more profitable than the attack speed from the Lethal Tempo. The main reason why I take Conqueror even in the Assassin build is in patch 12.10, after the general hardening it became difficult to one shot, so the Conqueror is more effective for almost any assassin.

Triumph will give you more chances to survive after a dive, restore HP well in teamfight and gives you more gold for killing.

Legend: Alacrity gives you an attack speed that allows you to clear camps faster, deal more hits, thereby winning more duels, and also use Blade of the Ruined King and Wit's End more often.

Since Nocturne cannot kill the target quickly, you will definitely lose hp, so Last Stand will help you win duels in a seemingly losing situation. Also, this rune goes very well with Sterak's Gage.

Eyeball Collection gives us AD after killing. The more you kill, the more effective this rune is. Useful for snowball.

If we can use the ult more often, then we make a bigger impact in the game. Just imagine the situation: you couldn't use Paranoia without this rune, and as a result, the enemy adc shot your entire team. If you pressed the ult, he would has to come to a dangerous distance, which would put him at risk.

The attack speed in these runes is always more advantageous than adaptive damage. The second one takes damage, since we are not a tank. I also advise you to always take armor in the third slot, since all the camps in the jungle cause AD damage.

This is the best legendary item on Nocturne as an assassin. This is the strongest combo of a Youmuu's Ghostblade and a Prowler's Claw, after using Paranoia, your target will have no chance to escape, because your auto attack will slow, and you can still add Gustwalker Smite!

Take these boots against a team with a lot of AP or CC. I advise you not to buy shoes for you unless you have an urgent need to buy them. It is better to buy damage and kill the target right away than to try to catch up with it from the speed of movement with boots.

Take these boots against a team with a lot of AD or Auto Attacks. Also 98% of jungle damage is physical and the passive applies to almost all jungle monsters.

Take this item only when you have been heavily fed (5+ kills). It will give a great potential for snowball and will allow you to use ult more often, so you will have more influence on the map.

A great item against strong mage. The shield will allow you to take more damage, and additional vampirism will allow you to recover during the time the shield protects you.

This very useful item will give you time to kill enemy carry in team battles. After killing Carrie, you will even stop receiving some of the damage you received earlier, so you can kill someone else. A versatile item, but more useful against heavy AD teams.

Take this item in those rare cases when the enemy carry greatly restores health and none of your team can reduce this heal to him.

An excellent item for punching targets with a large number of health and armor. If the enemies have little healing, feel free to take this particular penetration, since it is larger than with the Mortal Reminder.

What could be better than a shield from magic? Two shields from magic! If you are up against a carrier with annoying control, buy this item, so you will block as many as 2 enemy spells with this item and your Shroud of Darkness.

Take this cheap item against enemies with lots of shields or with a Immortal Shieldbow.

Gives the attack speed, but 5 AD less than that of Goredrinker. Useful against mobile heroes, as you can slow them down with an active skill. Weaker in teamfights than Goredrinker.

Gives 5 AD more than Stridebreaker, but has no attack speed. Take it against immobile heroes, as you will be able to survive longer due to healing with an active skill. More useful in teamfights than Stridebreaker just because of this healing.

Take these boots against a team with a lot of AP or CC. Just the same, it is important for the browser to have a shoe, so always buy the one you need after the mythic item.

Take these boots against a team with a lot of AD or Auto Attacks. Also 98% of jungle damage is physical and the passive applies to almost all jungle monsters.

A very useful item in the current realities of tank-meta. Reduces enemy armor by 30% for your ENTIRE team, so always buy this item against a large amount of armor. It also gives you movement speed, which will help you catch up with the enemy.

Also an anti-tank item like Black Cleaver, but aimed at the enemy's health. Buy it against a large number of HP, you will not regret it! The attack speed will allow you to use Umbra Blades more often, therefore, heal more often, and in a place with vampirism you will be very hardy in any conditions. Slowing down will allow you to catch up with the enemy.

Although it performs the same functions as with the assassin, but now it will not be so profitable, since you will not be able to kill the target quickly and not get all the damage. I still advise you to buy it against AD teams.

Just Grievous Wounds, but for the bruiser. Buy against a large amount of healing, but I do not advise you to improve it immediately, it is better to improve it as a 6 item.

I'm sorry for the tautology, but I promise, she's the only one here, but by adding this phrase, it disappears, right?), so the tautology will only be in shoes. A great item against strong mage . The shield will allow you to take more damage, and additional vampirism will allow you to recover during the time the shield protects you.

If you have mixed damage against you, feel free to take a Sterak's Gage! The shield will allow you to survive from any type of damage for longer, but for this item to be effective, you need more health items..

Although this item is worse against mages than the Maw of Malmortius, but it gives you more damage to the enemy. I advise you to buy it together with a Blade of the Ruined King and a Lethal tenpo for greater efficiency.

Every 14 seconds, Nocturne's next attack strikes all nearby enemies for 20% of his physical damage and restores 15−40 (+15% of ability power) per target hit (depending on level).

Nocturne's attacks reduce this ability's cooldown by 1 second, increased to 3 against champions and jungle monsters.

Use this combination to hide the auto-attack animation and deal damage faster with Unspeakable Horror, so you will win a few milliseconds, which can rarely, but sometime help you.

Nocturne throws a shadow blade which deals 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 (+0.75 per bonus attack damage) physical damage, leaves a Dusk Trail, and causes champions who are hit to also leave a Dusk Trail for 5 seconds. While on the trail, Nocturne ignores unit collision and has 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% increased Movement Speed and 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 additional Attack Damage.

Use this combination to finish off the fleeing enemies. Unfortunately, Nocturne's Duskbringer is one of those skills that cannot be used before the Flash to speed up the application, so it is Flash + Duskbringer.

As you can see, diskbringer did not shift, but the Nocturne did it. This is a very rare combination, useful against Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket!, Ezreal's Trueshot Barrage, Draven's Whirling Death etc to dodge and finish them off. Well, or just dodge and continue the pursuit.

Always use this after returning to base! believe me, if you exit it faster, even for a few seconds, it can greatly affect the game. Believe it or not, I even won a game once thanks to this trick, having managed to jump and save my carry from the enemy Master Yi.

Passive: Nocturne empowers his blades, permanently gaining 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 % attack speed.

Active: Nocturne creates a magical shield for 1.5 seconds which will block the next enemy spell that hits him. If an ability is blocked by the shield, his passive attack speed is doubled for 5 seconds.

If Shroud of Darkness is active when Nocturne re-casts Paranoia to dash to a target, it'll stay active until Nocturne reaches his target.

Since the Dragon's auto-attack counts as a skill, then you can use Shroud of Darkness to gain additional attack speed when fighting it. A useful feature that speeds up the killing of the Dragon at times.

Use this trick to kill the Rift Herald faster. So you will save 5 seconds, and you already know from my guide how important this is for me.

Use Shroud of Darkness to dodge the Rift Herald's enhanced attack and lose less health when killing him, while doing it faster, as you also gain attack speed!

Nocturne plants a nightmare into his target's mind, dealing damage each second for total 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 260 (+100% of ability power) over 2 seconds and fearing the target for 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 seconds causing them to run away from Nocturne with impaired movement if they do not get out of (465) range by the end of the duration. Nocturne also gains massively increased movement speed when moving toward feared targets.

Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is a unique skill. And its uniqueness lies in the fact that NOTHING but distance can break this chain. As an example, I showed you Shaco's Hallucinate, but you can imagine both Master Yi's Alpha Strike, and Rek'Sai's Void Rush, and so on.

Nocturne reduces the sight radius of all enemy champions and removes their ally vision for 6 seconds, this includes champions, minions, wards, towers and clairvoyance. He can then launch himself at an enemy champion (2500 / 3250 / 4000 range), dealing 150 / 275 / 400 (+1.2 per bonus attack damage) physical damage.

As you did not lie to you in the description of the Shroud of Darkness, but you can use ALL the skills during the flight with Paranoia. I advise you to ALWAYS do this with Duskbringer and Unspeakable Horror, because you will do more damage with R, since you will get an AD boost with Duskbringer before hitting. Also, if you start casting Unspeakable Horror earlier, then the enemy will be scared earlier too.

You can interrupt the use of Paranoia with a Flash. But before that, ask yourself: why did you use the ultimate at all to interrupt it?! So you will weaken for a while. So never use Paranoia without analyzing the situation, so that you don't have to lose two important abilities to correct your mistake.

As you can see, damage with Paranoia counts as a skill, so it's not blocked by Jax's Counter Strike or Shen's Spirit's Refuge or Nilah's Jubilant Veil or Teemo's Blinding Dart.

Look, Banshee's Veil, Sivir's Spell Shield and Edge of Night allow you not to get Nearsightedness when activating Paranoia! Be aware of this, when you are using ultimate is in teamfight, an enemy Assassin or mage will be able to see everything if he buys a spell shield.

But! A magic shield like Morgana's or Kassadin's doesn't have that effect. You need to know this too)

You can use Paranoia not only to get close to the target, but also for damage.

You can use Paranoia to reduce the enemy's vision and save your ally. From the example you can see how Kai'Sa couldn't use Killer Instinct on Sett, so he survived.

Invade is when you are at the first level, having strong lvl 1 heroes (preferably with control, Morgana, for example), the whole team goes into the enemy jungle to kill enemies. Even if you did not kill the enemy, you will place a vision, which is also beneficial.

Counter jungle is a strategy that allows you to deprive the enemy of the farm, while taking it for yourself. It consists in the fact that you farm camps on the enemy side of jungle. When to use this strategy:
1. When you know that the enemy jungler is on the other side of the map.
2. When you have nowhere to gank.
3. When you have nothing to farm in your jungle and don't have enough experience/gold to level up.

In teamfights you can play different styles, let me tell you in order:
1. Assassin - you wait for the enemy to spend the main skills and then use Paranoia and fly at the enemy carries in order to kill. If you manage to kill 1 or even 2 carries, then you have completed your task as an Assassin .
2. Initiator - this is a very rare role, most often performed by you if you play through the fighter build. Your role as the Initiator is to enter the enemy's carry and make sure that he spends Flash, as well as the defensive skills of his support. In the best case, you will even manage to kill the enemy carry.
3. Defender - you perform this role only if you do not need to perform the first two roles, or you have fed the enemy heavily, and you cannot perform the first two roles. Here you use Paranoia to reduce the enemy's vision and prevent him from killing your carry, if the enemy approached your carry, then use Unspeakable Horror.

The best buff for any Assassin , as the more damage, the more chances to kill the target or even kill more targets.

A great buff that will give you more influence on the map with Ability Haste and more damage for battles with attack speed.

The best buff for the Bruiser Nocturne, but also for the Assassin in third place. Additional tenacity is always useful, because if you get rid of control faster, then the enemy will not run away as far as if you were without tenacity.

This is some part of the full tenacity, therefore it is lower than the Chemtech buff, and even an increase in movement speed will not increase the place of this buff, but it may be good for an Assassin .

Additional protection will allow you to live longer and cause more damage, useless for an Assassin , but just right for a bruiser.

Useless in any fights, unfortunately.

This is the best soul for Nocturne, as it will be impossible to escape from you, you will be able to sell the shoe and buy even more damage!

Almost the same soul as the previous one, but slowing down the enemy, not speeding you up.

The best soul for a Bruiser Nocturne, allowing you to live in a teamfight for a very long time. It's not bad for an Assassin either, but still the damage would be better.

A good soul for a bruiser and an Assassin , will allow you to live longer in teamfights.

A good soul for poking an enemy with a Duskbringer.

It's useless, it's only necessary against poking teams.