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.
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Yorick against Lulu matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lulu..
Yorick typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lulu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when playing against Lulu, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a great counter for Lulu.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate compared to Lulu, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Lulu.
Additionally, Yorick also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Lulu 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a great counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Lulu.
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick on average accumulates much more CS as Lulu. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yorick versus Lulu build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Lulu than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when playing against Lulu with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Lulu as Yorick, you should take 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 chose for Yorick vs Lulu matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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