Varus with Yorick
How to Synergize Varus and Yorick
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Varus Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Varus with Yorick
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a very large drop in his 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 Varus perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is paired with Yorick, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Yorick doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yorick.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Varus during team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Yorick
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Is Varus better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best synergy for Varus that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Varus and Yorick that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Yorick has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players should be very careful when finding Yorick teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Varus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Varus and Yorick together, you will not be granting your other allies enough utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus to synergize with Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Varus and Yorick synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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