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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Yorick Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Yorick perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick is an ally to Orianna, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Orianna supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Orianna.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Orianna on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Yorick in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Yorick that will always be his best ally. However, Orianna is a not very good teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Yorick and Orianna that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you should be cautious when arranging Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Yorick players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Yorick and Orianna together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Yorick to work well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Yorick and Orianna synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Orianna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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