Akshan vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Akshan
based on 1,616 Akshan vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Yorick
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Akshan vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Akshan versus Yorick matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Yorick
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Who is Better, Akshan or Yorick?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter to Yorick.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Yorick.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a garbage counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yorick. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Akshan versus Yorick build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Yorick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Yorick as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Akshan vs Yorick counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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