Galio with Yorick
How to Synergize Galio and Yorick
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Galio Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Galio with Yorick
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Advice to Understand How Yorick Will Play
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.
Galio Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Galio in LoL
The Galio Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Galio sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yorick helps Galio perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio is paired with Yorick, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Yorick doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played alongside Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yorick.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Yorick on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Yorick does a decent job of covering Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Yorick
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Is Galio better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best synergy for Galio that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Yorick is a pretty good teammate for Galio. By locking into the same team as Galio, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.2%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Galio and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players need to be careful when finding Yorick comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Galio and Yorick together, you will not be giving your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio in order to pair well with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Galio and Yorick synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Yorick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Galio players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Galio are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.