Katarina with Nocturne
How to Synergize Katarina and Nocturne
based on 7,179 Katarina with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nocturne
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Nocturne, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Nocturne helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Nocturne on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Nocturne
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Nocturne is a good ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Katarina and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nocturne comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your team a lot of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Katarina and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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