Thresh vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Thresh
based on 3,280 Thresh vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Yorick
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Thresh against Yorick counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Yorick
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Who is Better, Thresh or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter to Yorick.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh versus Yorick build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Yorick as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Thresh vs Yorick battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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