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.
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
The Yorick Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Gragas, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Gragas helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Yorick in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Yorick that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Gragas is a not very good ally for Yorick. By being on the same team as Yorick, he decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 47.3%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Yorick and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means Yorick players don't need to be very careful when arranging Gragas allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Yorick players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Yorick and Gragas together, you may not be giving your side a lot of support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Yorick to pair well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Yorick and Gragas synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Yorick used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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