Talk:Nocturne/@comment-95.70.155.161-20110803132157/@comment-78.189.142.129-20110804074636

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Silly me, how did I forget about Veigar's event horizon. We'll just pick Veigar everytime to counter it, besides you sounded like the target knew where nocturne was coming from, which would be unrealistic since the target (including the rest of the team) is blinded. Every CC is reduced by tenacity, something which we are already aware of. Let us assume his "Unspeakable Horror" is a balanced skill but with the combination of "Shroud of Darkness" it sadly isn't. If we gave a CC skill to Sivir, I'm sure she would be picked more often. An anti-CC and a CC on the same champion, can be balanced surely, to be honest the skills Nocturne has are all balanced if examined respectively, but with the combination of all of em.. It is just not. My balance suggestions would be, either removing something from Duskbringer or SoD.. reduce the bonus AD damage from Duskbringer or just reduce the AS bonus from Shroud. Let me give a few examples, such as Twitch's ulti and Vayne's ulti. Twitch gains up to 35 damage and Vayne gains up to 55 damage.. but at least it is their ultimate, so the player gets to decide to use it carefully.. instead of just spamming it every 10 seconds like in Duskbringer. And making Paranoia an AoE ability instead of a global ability, It is no surprise that most global abilities are getting nerfed recently, such as pantheon's or TF's. Blinding a team for 4 seconds in a teamfight is ridicilious, it is nothing to be underestimated.. At least an active banshee should be able to block this blind, like TF's Destiny. There is no counter to it really, I know you'll be shouting "But he is squishy!". Making a champion squishy does not automaticly balances it, Sivir is squishy, Eve is squishy, Shaco is squishy.. but they are a hell lot more balanced than Nocturne. Sorry to dissapoint the fanboys but, Nocturne is definetly overpowered. I see him as a champion designed just to make heavy profit. Some may think im here QQing, I play Nocturne too and these are my opinion. If win/loss rates based on champions were to be released, I'm sure Nocturne's would be way higher than most champions. Thanks for reading.