Maokai vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Maokai
based on 3,629 Maokai vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Yorick
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Maokai vs. Yorick matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Yorick
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Who is Better, Maokai or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Yorick, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a great counter to Yorick.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Yorick.
Furthermore, Maokai also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Yorick matchups, Maokai 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 team fights.
Maokai is a great counter to Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically gets a lot less CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai versus Yorick build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 53.8% when playing against Yorick with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Yorick as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Maokai vs Yorick matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% win rate overall.
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