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.
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Yorick vs. Rell counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rell’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rell..
Yorick normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rell. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rell, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Yorick makes an ok counter for Rell.
While Yorick does have a lower winrate than Rell, when facing one another, Yorick also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Yorick into Rell.
Moreover, Yorick has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a somewhat poor counter to Rell. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Rell.
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Rell during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick often racks up much more CS compared to Rell. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Yorick versus Rell build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Rell than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Rell with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Rell as Yorick, Yorick players 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 sets players picked for Yorick vs Rell battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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