Karthus vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Karthus
based on 1,137 Karthus vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Yorick
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Karthus vs. Yorick matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karthus often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Yorick
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Who is Better, Karthus or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Karthus makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Karthus does have a much lower winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus usually picks up less CS relative to Yorick. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karthus versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Yorick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 45.4% when playing against Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Yorick as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Karthus vs Yorick face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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