Karma vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Karma
based on 5,182 Karma vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against 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 Win Against Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Karma vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Karma against Nocturne counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nocturne. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Karma or Nocturne?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Nocturne.
While Karma does have a much lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Nocturne.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a bad counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically accumulates more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Nocturne build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Nocturne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Nocturne as Karma, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Karma vs Nocturne counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Karma are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.