Naafiri vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Naafiri
based on 1,199 Naafiri vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Yorick
Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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.
Naafiri vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here show several critical Naafiri vs. Yorick matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Yorick?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when taking on Yorick, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Naafiri does have a higher win rate than Yorick, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Yorick.
Furthermore, Naafiri has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Yorick matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Yorick. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Yorick build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs. Yorick than with many other common builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 50.4% battling Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Yorick as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Naafiri vs Yorick matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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