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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Yorick against Rengar counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rengar..
Yorick usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Rengar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when playing against Rengar, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a good counter to Rengar.
While Yorick does have a higher win rate than Rengar, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Rengar.
Furthermore, Yorick also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Rengar matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yorick is an above average counter for Rengar. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Rengar.
If you would like to truly master Yorick in order to counter Rengar 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick on average accumulates much more CS compared to Rengar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot 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 numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Yorick versus Rengar build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Yorick combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Rengar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Rengar with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Rengar as Yorick, Yorick players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Yorick vs Rengar matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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