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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Yorick vs. Lissandra matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Yorick typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually fairs equally well when playing against Lissandra, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Yorick does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yorick into Lissandra.
Additionally, Yorick has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Yorick is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Lissandra build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Yorick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Lissandra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Lissandra as Yorick, Yorick players 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 combinations players picked for Yorick vs Lissandra fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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