Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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 show some strategic Lee Sin vs. Yorick matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick..
Lee Sin typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Yorick.
Furthermore, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Yorick.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often gets a lot less CS relative to Yorick. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lee Sin versus Yorick build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Yorick than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Yorick as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Lee Sin vs Yorick counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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