Talon vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Talon
based on 1,725 Talon vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Yorick
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Talon against Yorick counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Yorick
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Who is Better, Talon or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Talon makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Talon does have a lower winrate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Talon into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Talon 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 teammates during team fights.
Talon is a garbage counter for Yorick. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Talon against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Talon versus Yorick build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Yorick than with many other common item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Yorick with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Yorick as Talon, Talon players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Talon vs Yorick counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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