How to win the jungle race as Nocturne against Trundle · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Nocturne's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Trundle.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Trundle | Hard no-contest for Nocturne at level 1: Chomp (Q) steals AD on hit, so their level-1 trade is rigged in their favor, and Chomp steals your AD mid-fight and Pillar traps you inside his Frozen Domain. Refuse extended trades in his W zone and save your dash until after Pillar lands. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Trundle | Chomp steals your AD mid-fight and Pillar traps you inside his Frozen Domain. Frozen Domain (W) attack speed makes their buff-pit duel one of the best in the game on top of that, so level 2 is a straight stat check Nocturne loses — refuse extended trades in his W zone and save your dash until after Pillar lands, and give the river vision-line respect. |
| Level 3 Route | Danger — Avoid Trundle | Trundle out-classes you at the opening scuttle — Pillar (E) cuts the escape — with Q AD-steal and W haste the duel is theirs, and Chomp steals your AD mid-fight and Pillar traps you inside his Frozen Domain. Give up the level-3 river fight, full-clear away from them, and trade map pressure instead of health. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Trundle | Trundle owns 4-5 outright. He uses 4-5 to steal camps and contest your jungle, where Pillar of Ice cuts off every retreat, so treat every crossing as theirs and take the camps they are furthest from. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Trundle's R | Subjugate steals your health and resists and beats you with your own stats — Nocturne loses the straight post-6 duel. Disengage the moment the drain lands — deny the follow-up while the stolen stats decay, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Subjugate is not on. |
| First Item Spike | Eclipse / Hexplate Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive physical damage and burst multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or assassin targets. Trundle's first item is a real threshold — the sustain plus stat theft makes long fights ones he cannot lose. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Nocturne Favoured at Full Build | Two items on, the edge is yours. The one thing to plan around is that he steals your stats mid-fight, so the longer the duel runs the worse it gets — take that away and the fight is a formality. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health retention via passive lifesteal loops before executing a fast full clear straight into an aggressive scuttle crab contest. Trundle clears fast in Frozen Domain and heals off King's Tribute, so he arrives at every crossing at full health.
Ranked by the race windows in Nocturne's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Nocturne vs Trundle report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Trundle pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Trundle pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Nocturne is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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