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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Yorick against LeBlanc matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than LeBlanc..
Yorick normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than LeBlanc. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when playing against LeBlanc, with a 54.9% win rate. Therefore, Yorick makes a great counter for LeBlanc.
While Yorick does have a much higher win rate compared to LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yorick into LeBlanc.
Moreover, Yorick also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs LeBlanc 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 team fights.
Yorick is a great counter for LeBlanc. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against LeBlanc.
To truly master Yorick to counter LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often gets a similar amount of CS as LeBlanc. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Yorick versus LeBlanc build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering LeBlanc than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 54.9% battling LeBlanc with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating LeBlanc as Yorick, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Yorick vs LeBlanc counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.9% win rate overall.
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