Karthus vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Karthus
based on 457 Karthus vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Yorick
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Advice to Win Against Yorick
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.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
Karthus vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Karthus vs. Yorick counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yorick. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in deathsassists.
Karthus usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Yorick
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Who is Better, Karthus or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 40.7% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This 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 Karthus vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karthus is a trash counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Yorick.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus in order to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus typically accumulates less CS relative to Yorick. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karthus versus Yorick build include Liandry's Anguish, Void Staff, and Shadowflame. When Karthus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Yorick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 40.7% when countering Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Yorick as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karthus vs Yorick counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 40.7% winrate overall.
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