Katarina vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Katarina
based on 2,972 Katarina vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Yorick
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Katarina vs. Yorick counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Yorick
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Who is Better, Katarina or Yorick?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Yorick, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Yorick.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Yorick, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Yorickas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Yorick build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Yorick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Yorick as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina vs Yorick counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yorick as Katarina are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.