If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Evelynn versus Yorick counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Evelynn usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes an ok counter to Yorick.
While Evelynn does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Evelynn also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Yorickas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Yorick matchups, Evelynn 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 teamfights.
Evelynn is a decent counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Yorick.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn typically gets a lot less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Evelynn versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Void Staff. When Evelynn bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Yorick than with many other common builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Yorick as Evelynn, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Evelynn vs Yorick counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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