Sylas vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Sylas
based on 2,681 Sylas vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Yorick
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic Sylas versus Yorick matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yorick. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Sylas typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Yorick
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Who is Better, Sylas or Yorick?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Yorick, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Yorick.
Furthermore, Sylas has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sylas is a terribly counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Sylas versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Yorick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 47.7% battling Yorick with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Yorick as Sylas, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sylas vs Yorick LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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