Yorick vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Yorick
based on 3,431 Yorick vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Yorick Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Yorick vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Yorick in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Yorick vs. Leona matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona..
Yorick normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Leona
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Who is Better, Yorick or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Yorick makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Yorick does have a lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yorick into Leona.
Furthermore, Yorick has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a garbage counter to Leona. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yorick against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Yorick
Additional Information for Yorick Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick on average accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Leona build consist of Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Leona as Yorick, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Yorick vs Leona counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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