Yorick vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Yorick
based on 2,448 Yorick vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Yorick vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Yorick in LoL
The stats shown here show some important Yorick vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Yorick typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Yorick or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yorick into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Yorick has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Lee Sin matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yorick is an above average counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yorick to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically gets much more CS as Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yorick versus Lee Sin build include The Collector, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Lee Sin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Lee Sin as Yorick, Yorick players should use 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 runes players used for Yorick vs Lee Sin counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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