Karma with Nocturne
How to Synergize Karma and Nocturne
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Karma Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Karma with Nocturne
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
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.
Karma Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Karma in LoL
The Karma 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, Karma sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Nocturne, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nocturne provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Nocturne on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best champion pairing for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a good companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Karma and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Karma players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Karma and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Karma and Nocturne synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Karma and Nocturne pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nocturne with Karma are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located above.