Vel'Koz vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Vel'Koz
based on 1,870 Vel'Koz vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Yorick
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Vel'Koz versus Yorick matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Yorick
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Yorick?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter to Yorick.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Yorick during both the lane 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 here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically picks up less CS relative to Yorick. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Yorick build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Yorick than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Yorick as Vel'Koz, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Yorick counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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