Best Nakroth Build, Rune Page & Guide for 2026

• If you’re not too confident playing Nakroth yet, build Leviathan instead of Soulreaver for more durability.
• If you’re fed early and have a lot of gold, build Fenrir's Tooth instead of Claves Sancti to optimize damage.
• Late game, once you have extra gold, consider selling Gilded Greaves and building another attack or defense item depending on the situation.

How to Combo Nakroth When the Enemy is Close:

1. Dash with Skill 1 Jury Fury once to attack and pin down the target.
2. Immediately activate Skill 3 Judgement's Blade to burst the enemy.
3. Dash with Skill 2 Death Sentence to cut off the enemy’s retreat, or pull back and use the empowered ranged basic attack to keep dealing damage.
4. Use Skill 1’s Jury Fury 2nd dash to chase or escape the fight.

How to Combo Nakroth When the Enemy is Far:

1. Use Skill 2 Death Sentence to close in on the target.
2. Dash with Skill 1 Jury Fury once to launch the enemy
3. Use Skill 3 Judgement's Blade to burst the opponent.
4. Basic attack once to trigger the empowered attack from Skill 2 Death Sentence .
5. Use Skill 1’s Jury Fury 2nd dash to chase or leave the fight.

Passive Dread Judge :

• Watch for your 4th basic attack, which launches the target.
• Try to land skills on the enemy to gain bonus attack speed.

Skill 1 Jury Fury :

• Make good use of both terrain-crossing dashes, with the first one launching the enemy, to chase, escape, or simply move faster.
• After each dash, basic attack to take full advantage of the bonus attack speed from passive Dread Judge .

Skill 2 Death Sentence :

• Note: to dash in one direction, cast the skill in the opposite direction.
• Use its terrain-crossing dash combined with Skill 1 Jury Fury to make Nakroth more unpredictable.
• After dashing, your next basic attack gains extended range and damage, so use it to attack the enemy from range.

Skill 3 Judgement's Blade :

• Time it well, and this skill grants crowd-control and damage immunity to dodge enemy crowd control and damage.
• Use this skill when you need to burst down the enemy.

In the early game, focus on finishing your jungle route as fast as possible to reach level 4 before your opponent, making it easier to secure first blood when ganking.

Take good advantage of the mobility from Skill 1 Jury Fury and Skill 2 Death Sentence to dash across walls in the jungle, significantly speeding up your farming.

In this phase, the best approach for Nakroth is to gank, gank, and keep ganking to unlock this hero’s full power.

Clear jungle minions fast, and the moment you see an enemy wandering alone or pushing too far, move in to take them down, prioritizing squishy targets like the enemy mid laner or marksman to slow their power progression.

By the late game, take good advantage of Nakroth ‘s mobility to split push, continuously clearing minions on multiple lanes to force the enemy to split up to defend.

That creates opportunities for you to pick off stragglers, forces the enemy to fight understaffed, and opens space for your team to secure Dragon and Caesar for important buffs.

In a fight, don’t dive in right away — wait for the enemy’s core damage dealer to expose themselves, like pushing up without Flicker ready, then dash in to take them down and safely pull back.