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.
The Yorick Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick is paired with Volibear, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Volibear doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Volibear on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Yorick during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Yorick that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Volibear is a not very good teammate for Yorick. By being on the same team as Yorick, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Yorick and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Volibear teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Yorick and Volibear together, you may not be granting your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Yorick to synergize with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Yorick and Volibear synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Volibear than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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