Nocturne vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Nocturne
based on 3,049 Nocturne vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against 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 Win Against K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Nocturne vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Nocturne vs. K'Sante matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante..
Nocturne typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Nocturne or K'Sante?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a great counter for K'Sante.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into K'Sante.
Moreover, Nocturne has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs K'Sante matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter for K'Sante. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often gets a lot less CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus K'Sante build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs K'Sante than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 53.8% battling K'Sante with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating K'Sante as Nocturne, Nocturne players should equip 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 that we analyzed for Nocturne vs K'Sante counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.8% winrate overall.
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