Nocturne vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Nocturne
based on 5,182 Nocturne vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Karma
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 Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Nocturne vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Nocturne against Karma counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Karma
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a great counter for Karma.
While Nocturne does have a much higher win rate compared to Karma, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Karma.
Moreover, Nocturne has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Karma matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often picks up less CS as Karma. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Karma build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Karma than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Karma as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nocturne vs Karma counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
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