Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
The stats provided here clarify some critical Cassiopeia against Yorick counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick..
Cassiopeia typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually fairs equally well when taking on Yorick, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Cassiopeia makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher win rate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Cassiopeia into Yorickas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Cassiopeia has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Yorick matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Cassiopeia is a decent counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Cassiopeia against Yorick.
If you would like to truly master Cassiopeia to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Yorick. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Cassiopeia versus Yorick build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Yorick than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Yorick as Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Yorick clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Cassiopeia are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.