Nocturne with K'Sante
How to Synergize Nocturne and K'Sante
based on 2,833 Nocturne with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with K'Sante
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 Understand How K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Nocturne K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nocturne sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with K'Sante. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Nocturne perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as K'Sante, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that K'Sante provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with K'Sante on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with K'Sante on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and K'Sante
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best companion for Nocturne that will always be his best synergy. However, K'Sante is a terrible teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, they lowers their win rate by -3.9% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Nocturne and K'Sante that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be very careful when finding K'Sante allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and K'Sante together, you will not be giving your other allies much support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to work well with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nocturne and K'Sante synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Eclipse. When Nocturne combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nocturne and K'Sante pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair K'Sante with Nocturne are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.