Gragas vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Gragas
based on 1,387 Gragas vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Yorick
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Gragas versus Yorick counter statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick..
Gragas usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Yorick
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Who is Better, Gragas or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Yorick, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Gragas does have a much lower win rate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Yorick.
Additionally, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas 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 team members during team fights.
Gragas is a garbage counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing 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 Gragas against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to counter Yorick during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up less CS relative to Yorick. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas versus Yorick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Yorick than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Yorick as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas vs Yorick battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Gragas are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.