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.
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
The Yorick Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Soraka helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick is paired with Soraka, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Soraka on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Soraka does a poor job of covering Yorick in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Yorick that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Soraka is a very bad ally for Yorick. By being on the same side as Yorick, she drops their win rate by -3.8% to 46.5%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Yorick and Soraka that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Soraka comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Yorick and Soraka together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Soraka ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to synergize with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Yorick and Soraka synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Yorick players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Yorick and Soraka pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Soraka with Yorick are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.