Graves vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Graves
based on 3,625 Graves vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Yorick
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Graves vs. Yorick counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Graves typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Yorick
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Who is Better, Graves or Yorick?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter for Yorick.
While Graves does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Graves into Yorick.
Additionally, Graves also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Yorick matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often picks up a lot less CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Graves versus Yorick build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Yorick than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Yorick with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Yorick as Graves, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Graves vs Yorick clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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