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 shown here clarify some vital Rell versus Yorick counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Rell does have a higher winrate than Yorick, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Yorick.
Furthermore, Rell also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Yorick matchups, Rell is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rell is a decent counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rell against Yorick.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell typically gets a lot less CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Rell versus Yorick build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Yorick than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 50.9% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Yorick as Rell, Rell players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Rell vs Yorick counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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