Kai'Sa with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Nocturne
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Kai'Sa Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Nocturne
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
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.
Kai'Sa Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kai'Sa sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Kai'Sa perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa is an ally to Nocturne, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nocturne provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Nocturne on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Kai'Sa during teamfights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will always be her best ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a pretty good ally for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same side as Kai'Sa, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 48.7%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Kai'Sa and Nocturne that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players don't need to be careful when finding Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kai'Sa and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Kai'Sa and Nocturne synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Stormsurge. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nocturne with Kai'Sa are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.