Nocturne with Karthus
How to Synergize Nocturne and Karthus
based on 1,137 Nocturne with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Nocturne Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Nocturne perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is paired with Karthus, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Karthus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Karthus on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Karthus
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very typical ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Nocturne and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be careful when lining up Karthus teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Nocturne players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Nocturne and Karthus together, you will not be giving your other allies much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to work well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Nocturne and Karthus synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Karthus than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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