Yorick vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Yorick
based on 3,629 Yorick vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Yorick vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Yorick in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Yorick versus Maokai matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Yorick often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Maokai
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Who is Better, Yorick or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Yorick does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yorick into Maokai.
Moreover, Yorick also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yorick is a garbage counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick usually racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Maokai build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 46.2% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Yorick, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Yorick vs Maokai battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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