Katarina with Yorick
How to Synergize Katarina and Yorick
based on 2,841 Katarina with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Yorick Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Katarina Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Yorick
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yorick helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Yorick, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Yorick does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with 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 alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Yorick on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Yorick
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Katarina better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no ideal companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when arranging Yorick allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Katarina players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Yorick together, you may not be providing your side enough support. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Katarina
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Katarina Players
How We Calculated Our Katarina Yorick Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to work well with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina and Yorick synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Yorick than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Katarina and Yorick pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Yorick with Katarina are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.