K'Sante vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as K'Sante
based on 3,049 K'Sante vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Nocturne
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).
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!
K'Sante vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential K'Sante versus Nocturne matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
K'Sante typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Nocturne
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Nocturne?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Nocturne, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Nocturne.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Nocturneas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually gets much more CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Nocturne build consist of Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three items in their build, they performed much better countering Nocturne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 46.2% battling Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Nocturne as K'Sante, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Nocturne battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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