Alistar vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Alistar
based on 1,335 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 shown here emphasize several strategic Alistar vs. Yorick matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP 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 LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often picks up a lot less CS relative to Yorick. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Alistar versus Yorick build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Yorick as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Alistar vs Yorick counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Alistar are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.