Garen vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Garen
based on 3,106 Garen vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Yorick
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Garen versus Yorick counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick..
Garen often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Yorick. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Yorick
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Who is Better, Garen or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a bad counter for Yorick.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Yorick.
Furthermore, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Garen is a terribly counter for Yorick. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Yorick. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen versus Yorick build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.6% battling Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Yorick as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Yorick face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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