You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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 highlight several significant Neeko against Yorick counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Neeko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Neeko may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yorick..
Neeko usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Neeko usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Yorick, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Neeko makes an ok counter to Yorick.
While Neeko does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Neeko also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Neeko into Yorick.
Additionally, Neeko also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Neeko vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Neeko is a somewhat poor counter to Yorick. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Neeko against Yorick.
If you would like to truly master Neeko to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Neeko most often gets less CS relative to Yorick. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Neeko versus Yorick build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Neeko bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Yorick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Yorick as Neeko, Neeko players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Neeko vs Yorick counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Neeko are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.