Karthus with Yorick
How to Synergize Karthus and Yorick
based on 1,065 Karthus with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Yorick Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karthus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Yorick
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus 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, Karthus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yorick helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Yorick, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Yorick does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Yorick on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Yorick does a poor job of covering Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Yorick
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Karthus better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no ideal companion for Karthus that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a good companion for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karthus and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be careful when arranging Yorick allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Karthus and Yorick together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus Yorick Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Karthus and Yorick synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Karthus players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Karthus and Yorick pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
If you want to see Karthus and Yorick synergy tips and builds for a a particular division, feel free to select one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the statistics and strategies displayed are computed using all rounds played with both champions.