Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 fall shows that Yorick helps Kai'Sa perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa plays on the same team as Yorick, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Yorick does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Yorick on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical teammate for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same side as Kai'Sa, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kai'Sa and Yorick that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Yorick comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kai'Sa players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Kai'Sa and Yorick together, you may not be providing your team enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to synergize with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Kai'Sa and Yorick synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 46.8% helping carry Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kai'Sa and Yorick pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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