Yorick vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Yorick
based on 1,937 Yorick vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Aphelios
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Yorick vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Yorick in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Yorick versus Aphelios counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Yorick normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Yorick or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a poor counter to Aphelios.
While Yorick does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Yorick also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Aphelios.
Additionally, Yorick has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yorick is a somewhat poor counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yorick to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Yorick versus Aphelios build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Aphelios as Yorick, Yorick players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yorick vs Aphelios counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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