Yorick vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Yorick
based on 837 Yorick vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Yorick Items
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Guide to Countering Taric as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Yorick vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Yorick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Yorick against Taric matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric..
Yorick usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yorick and Taric
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Who is Better, Yorick or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Yorick does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yorick into Taric.
Moreover, Yorick also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This 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 in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yorick is a bad counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Yorick
Additional Information for Yorick Players
How We Calculated Our Yorick vs Taric Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yorick in order to counter Taric 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick often gets much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Taric build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Taric as Yorick, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Yorick vs Taric LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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