Irelia with Yorick
How to Synergize Irelia and Yorick
based on 1,026 Irelia with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Yorick
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Irelia perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is an ally to Yorick, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Yorick does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Yorick on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Irelia in teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Yorick
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Irelia that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Yorick is a very typical teammate for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Irelia and Yorick that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you must be cautious when lining up Yorick allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Irelia players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Yorick together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia to synergize with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Irelia and Yorick synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Irelia and Yorick pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Yorick with Irelia are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.