Irelia vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Irelia
based on 2,916 Irelia vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Yorick
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Irelia vs. Yorick counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Yorick
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Who is Better, Irelia or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when taking on Yorick, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a great counter to Yorick.
While Irelia does have a much higher win rate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Yorick.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Yorick matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a great counter to Yorick. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Yorick. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Irelia versus Yorick build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Yorick than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 54.7% when playing against Yorick with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Yorick as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Irelia vs Yorick counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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