Illaoi vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Illaoi
based on 1,947 Illaoi vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Yorick
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Illaoi versus Yorick counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yorick..
Illaoi normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Yorick
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 44.1% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Illaoi does have a much lower win rate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Illaoi into Yorick.
Moreover, Illaoi 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Illaoi is a garbage counter to Yorick. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Yorick. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Illaoi versus Yorick build consist of Sterak's Gage, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Yorick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 44.1% when playing against Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Yorick as Illaoi, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi vs Yorick face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Illaoi are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.