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.
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Yorick versus Rammus matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Yorick typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually loses when taking on Rammus, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Yorick makes a bad counter for Rammus.
While Yorick does have a lower win rate compared to Rammus, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Yorick into Rammus.
Moreover, Yorick has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yorick is a somewhat poor counter for Rammus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Rammus.
If you would like to truly master Yorick to counter Rammus during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick usually accumulates much more CS relative to Rammus. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Yorick versus Rammus build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Yorick incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rammus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Rammus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rammus 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Yorick vs Rammus matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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