You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Aurelion Sol vs. Yorick counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually wins when playing against Yorick, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Aurelion Sol makes a great counter to Yorick.
While Aurelion Sol does have a higher win rate than Yorick, when facing one another, Aurelion Sol also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Aurelion Sol into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aurelion Sol also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol vs Yorick matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aurelion Sol is a great counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Yorick.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aurelion Sol to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn 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 closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Aurelion Sol versus Yorick build include Liandry's Anguish, Seraph's Embrace, and Rabadon's Deathcap. When Aurelion Sol combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Yorick than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aurelion Sol had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Yorick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Yorick as Aurelion Sol, Aurelion Sol players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Aurelion Sol vs Yorick counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.3% winrate overall.
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