Yorick vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Yorick
based on 1,137 Yorick vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Karthus
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 Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Yorick vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Yorick in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Yorick versus Karthus matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karthus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karthus..
Yorick normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Karthus
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Who is Better, Yorick or Karthus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when taking on Karthus, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a great counter to Karthus.
While Yorick does have a much higher winrate than Karthus, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Karthus.
Moreover, Yorick has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. 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 in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Karthus matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yorick is a great counter for Karthus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick on average picks up more CS as Karthus. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Yorick versus Karthus build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Karthus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 54.6% when countering Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Karthus as Yorick, Yorick players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Yorick vs Karthus face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% winrate overall.
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