Talk:Nocturne/@comment-3493296-20150518100717/@comment-14081808-20150521182110

Warrior was among those gotten on the website you provided and was the best way to encourage your version of the passive with it's AD and Armor penetration. Without it, your argument is weaker because it's one more item slot that encourages tankiness, especially with it's 25% bonus health passive.

That said, in all likelihood, the suggested changes would leave his early game slightly weaker, which he doesn't want at all, and his late game slightly stronger, which he doesn't care about. You are right in that it would be a late game buff, but you miss the major issue of Nocturne being irrelevant in the late game. That's not where he shines or is even supposed to shine. His big poing is mid-game, post-6 when he can Paranoia and pick up random kills. He falls off lategame on purpose, much like Irelia, albeit much harder because he is bad at teamfighting.

Riot just buffed his early damage on E for this very reason: his early game is weak, mid-game is strong, late-game is whatever. Maybe I'm wrong a bit on numbers, but I'm guessing that despite 20% lifesteal, his base 10 is going to outclass it for a few levels, which we all know will only make his life harder. And without the AD that comes from his itemization, that 20% will be hard to make good use of early.