Nocturne with Karma
How to Synergize Nocturne and Karma
based on 5,253 Nocturne with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Karma
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
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.
Nocturne Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Karma, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Karma helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Karma on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Karma
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Karma?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Karma is a relatively poor teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Nocturne and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you must be careful when enlisting Karma allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Karma together, you probably will not be granting your side much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to synergize with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Nocturne and Karma synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nocturne and Karma pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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