Alistar vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Alistar
based on 1,532 Alistar vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Yorick
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Alistar versus Yorick matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Yorick
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Who is Better, Alistar or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average gets a lot less CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Yorick build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Yorick than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 48.3% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Yorick as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Yorick LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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