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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Yorick Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Yorick perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick is paired with Aphelios, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Yorick in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Yorick that will always be his top ally. Yet, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Yorick and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Yorick. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Yorick players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Yorick and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Yorick in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Yorick and Aphelios synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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