Katarina vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Katarina
based on 7,041 Katarina vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nocturne
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Katarina vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several influential Katarina vs. Nocturne matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nocturne?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Nocturne.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Nocturneas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Nocturne. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates much more CS as Nocturne. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Nocturne than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Nocturne as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Katarina vs Nocturne matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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