Nocturne with Katarina
How to Synergize Nocturne and Katarina
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Nocturne Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with 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 Understand How Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Nocturne Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne is paired with Katarina, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Katarina does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Katarina on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Nocturne that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical teammate for Nocturne. By being on the same side as Nocturne, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.5%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Nocturne and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means you should be careful when lining up Katarina allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Nocturne and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your side enough support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nocturne in order to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Nocturne and Katarina synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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