Yorick vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Yorick
based on 708 Yorick vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Yorick vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Yorick in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Yorick vs. Kalista counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Yorick typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Kalista
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Who is Better, Yorick or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kalista, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Yorick does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Yorick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yorick into Kalista.
Additionally, Yorick has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Kalista matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a decent counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to counter Kalista 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Kalista build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Yorick, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Yorick vs Kalista battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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