Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 critical Taliyah vs. Yorick matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yorick..
Taliyah normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Taliyah does have a much lower winrate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Yorick.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taliyah is a terribly counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Yorick.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually accumulates less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Taliyah versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Yorick as Taliyah, Taliyah players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Taliyah vs Yorick face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Taliyah are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.