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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats shown on this page clarify several strategic Yorick versus Singed matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Yorick usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Singed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when playing against Singed, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a good counter for Singed.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate compared to Singed, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Singed.
Moreover, Yorick also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Singed matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yorick is a decent counter to Singed. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Singed.
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Singed. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Yorick versus Singed build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Serylda's Grudge. When Yorick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Singed than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against Singed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Singed as Yorick, Yorick players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Yorick vs Singed LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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