Talk:Nocturne/@comment-24724753-20150128135902/@comment-5211662-20150128143844

He is an assassin but he lacks escape mechanisms. That's why you build him tankier than other assassins. You don't need to build him full tank (I have seen some people do so), in fact, it doesn't generally work as Nocturne has poor natural defenses and he has only one CC and scales better with damage.

However, building him with a Randuin's Omen and other tanky items is not that much of a bad idea, so that he can survive when he tries to kill someone.

However he works well with AD items.