Talk:Nocturne/@comment-4677525-20120619195411/@comment-5196742-20120621231503

I consider it a notable nerf, but not necessarily significant. It's given Nocturne a lot less "Irelia-syndrome". Pre-nerf Nocturne would just jungle forever with a Vampiric Scepter and never lose out on a lot of health so he'd always be strong enough to turn away counter-junglers, counter-jungle himself, or straight-up gank if he felt like it. Since he never had a weak point in his game, it was really hard to put him down before his God-like level 6 ganks.

It's pushed people out of Vampiric Scepter and into Cloth+5 and Boots+3 for starting.