Zed vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Zed
based on 3,113 Zed vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Yorick
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Zed vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Zed vs. Yorick matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Yorick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Yorick
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Who is Better, Zed or Yorick?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Yorick, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter for Yorick.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Yorick, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a trash counter to Yorick. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zed versus Yorick build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.8% battling Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Yorick as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Zed vs Yorick matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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