Leona vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Leona
based on 3,431 Leona vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Yorick
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several important Leona vs. Yorick counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yorick. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Yorick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Yorick
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Who is Better, Leona or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Yorick, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Yorick.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Yorick.
Additionally, Leona also has a great deal 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Yorick matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often gets a lot less CS relative to Yorick. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Leona versus Yorick build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Yorick than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.4% battling Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Yorick as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Leona vs Yorick fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
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