Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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 provided here emphasize several influential Kindred vs. Yorick counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Yorick..
Kindred typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Yorick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when trying to fight Yorick, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate than Yorick, when facing one another, Kindred also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kindred into Yorick.
Additionally, Kindred has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kindred is a trash counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Yorick.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kindred versus Yorick build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better versus Yorick than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Yorick with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Yorick as Kindred, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kindred vs Yorick clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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