Yorick vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Yorick
based on 3,530 Yorick vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Varus
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.
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Yorick vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Yorick in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Yorick against Varus matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Varus..
Yorick typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Varus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Varus
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Who is Better, Yorick or Varus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when trying to fight Varus, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a good counter for Varus.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate than Varus, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yorick into Varus.
Moreover, Yorick has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This 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 in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Varus matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yorick is a good counter to Varus. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often gets a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Varus build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Serylda's Grudge. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Varus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Varus 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 we have analyed for Yorick vs Varus face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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