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.
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
The Yorick Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Yorick perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick is paired with Nocturne, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Nocturne 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 with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Nocturne on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Yorick during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Yorick that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Nocturne is a good companion for Yorick. By playing on the same side as Yorick, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 52.8%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Yorick and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Yorick and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your other allies very much utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Yorick to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Yorick and Nocturne synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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