Poppy with Yorick
How to Synergize Poppy and Yorick
based on 817 Poppy with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Yorick
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 drop shows that Yorick helps Poppy perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Yorick, she gets a big decrease in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Yorick doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Yorick on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Yorick
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Poppy that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Yorick is a not very good companion for Poppy. By locking into the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Poppy and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when arranging Yorick teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Poppy and Yorick together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to synergize with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Poppy and Yorick synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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