Yorick vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Yorick
based on 1,411 Yorick vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Yorick vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Yorick in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Yorick vs. Xayah counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Yorick normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Xayah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Xayah
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Who is Better, Yorick or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when taking on Xayah, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Yorick makes a good counter to Xayah.
While Yorick does have a higher win rate than Xayah, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yorick into Xayah.
Moreover, Yorick also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Xayah matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Yorick is an above average counter for Xayah. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Xayah. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Yorick versus Xayah build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Xayah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Xayah as Yorick, you should take 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 Xayah matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Yorick are shown for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.