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.
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
The Yorick Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yorick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Annie, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Annie supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Annie on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of covering Yorick in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Yorick that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Annie is a very typical ally for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, she increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Yorick and Annie that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Annie allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Yorick and Annie together, you will not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to work well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Yorick and Annie synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Annie than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Yorick players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Annie with Yorick are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.