Yorick vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Yorick
based on 2,225 Yorick vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Bard
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Yorick vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Yorick in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Yorick versus Bard counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Yorick typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Bard
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Who is Better, Yorick or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Yorick does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yorick into Bard.
Moreover, Yorick also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a terribly counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Yorick
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yorick in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Bard build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Bard than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Bard as Yorick, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Yorick vs Bard LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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