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 stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Yorick vs. Yuumi counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yuumi..
Yorick typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Yuumi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when playing against Yuumi, with a 59.3% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a fantastic counter for Yuumi.
While Yorick does have a much higher winrate than Yuumi, when facing one another, Yorick also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yorick into Yuumi.
Additionally, Yorick has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Yuumi matchups, Yorick is the better champion 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 great counter to Yuumi. Focus your tactics on keeping up 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 Yuumi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick usually accumulates much more CS as Yuumi. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yorick versus Yuumi build include Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Yuumi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 59.3% when playing against Yuumi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Yuumi as Yorick, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Yorick vs Yuumi counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 59.3% winrate overall.
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