Leona with Yorick
How to Synergize Leona and Yorick
based on 3,315 Leona with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Leona with Yorick
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her 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 Leona perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Yorick, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Yorick does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Yorick on the same team, 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 Leona plays with Yorick on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Yorick does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best companion for Leona that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical teammate for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 53.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Leona and Yorick that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you must be careful when lining up Yorick allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Leona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Yorick together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to pair well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Leona and Yorick synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Yorick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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