Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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 feature some influential Morgana against Yorick counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when taking on Yorick, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Morgana makes an ok counter to Yorick.
While Morgana does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Morgana into Yorick.
Moreover, Morgana also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Morgana is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Yorick.
If you would like to truly master Morgana in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often accumulates a lot less CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Morgana versus Yorick build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Yorick than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Morgana had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Yorick as Morgana, Morgana players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Morgana vs Yorick counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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