Azir vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Azir
based on 1,337 Azir vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Yorick Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Azir Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Yorick as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Yorick
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Azir vs. Yorick counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yorick..
Azir usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Yorick
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Azir or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Yorick, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a bad counter to Yorick.
While Azir does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Azir into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Azir is a terribly counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Yorick.
Other Champion Matchups Against Azir
Additional Information for Azir Players
How We Calculated Our Azir vs Yorick Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually gets a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Yorick than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Yorick as Azir, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Azir vs Yorick face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Azir are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located above.