Akali vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Akali
based on 5,287 Akali vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Yorick
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Akali vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Akali versus Yorick matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Yorick
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Who is Better, Akali or Yorick?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Yorick, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Akali makes an ok counter to Yorick.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Yorick, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Akali into Yorickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Yorick. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Akali versus Yorick build include Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Yorick than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Yorick as Akali, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Akali vs Yorick counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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