Brand vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Brand
based on 5,377 Brand vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Yorick
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Brand vs. Yorick matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Brand usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Yorick. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Yorick
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Who is Better, Brand or Yorick?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Brand makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Yorick.
Additionally, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Yorick matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically accumulates less CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Brand versus Yorick build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Yorick than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Yorick as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Brand vs Yorick LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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