Nocturne vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Nocturne
based on 7,041 Nocturne vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Katarina
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 Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Nocturne vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Nocturne against Katarina counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Nocturne usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Katarina
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Katarina, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Katarina.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Katarina matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Katarina. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne most often accumulates a lot less CS as Katarina. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nocturne versus Katarina build consist of Edge of Night, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.0% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Katarina as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nocturne vs Katarina counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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