Karthus with Nocturne
How to Synergize Karthus and Nocturne
based on 1,137 Karthus with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Nocturne
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Karthus perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is paired with Nocturne, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Nocturne
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best synergy for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nocturne is a fantastic companion for Karthus. By playing on the same team as Karthus, he increases their win rate by 4.2% to 51.5%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Karthus and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be cautious when finding Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Karthus and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Karthus to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Karthus and Nocturne synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karthus and Nocturne pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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