Yorick vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Yorick
based on 1,947 Yorick vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Yorick vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Yorick in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Yorick vs. Illaoi matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Yorick often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Yorick or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 55.9% win rate. Therefore, Yorick makes a fantastic counter to Illaoi.
While Yorick does have a much higher winrate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Yorick also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Illaoi matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yorick is a great counter for Illaoi. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Illaoi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Yorick
Additional Information for Yorick Players
How We Calculated Our Yorick vs Illaoi Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Illaoi during both the laning 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 tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often gets a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yorick versus Illaoi build consist of Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 55.9% when countering Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Illaoi as Yorick, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yorick vs Illaoi counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.9% winrate overall.
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