Nocturne vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nocturne
based on 1,676 Nocturne vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Kalista
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Nocturne vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Nocturne versus Kalista matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champions. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Nocturne usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 54.9% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Nocturne does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Kalista.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Kalista matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne usually gets a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Kalista build include Experimental Hexplate, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 54.9% when countering Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kalista as Nocturne, Nocturne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nocturne vs Kalista face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.9% winrate overall.
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