Heimerdinger with Yorick
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Yorick
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Heimerdinger Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Yorick
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Understand How Yorick Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yorick helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Yorick, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Yorick does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Yorick on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Yorick
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a decent teammate for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same team as Heimerdinger, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.7%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Yorick teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Heimerdinger and Yorick together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order to pair well with Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Yorick synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Yorick with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Yorick with Heimerdinger are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.