Kassadin with Yorick
How to Synergize Kassadin and Yorick
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Kassadin Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Yorick
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is an ally to Yorick, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Yorick does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yorick.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Yorick does a poor job of covering Kassadin during team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Yorick is a very typical teammate for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Kassadin and Yorick that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when lining up Yorick comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Kassadin players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kassadin and Yorick together, you may not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Kassadin and Yorick synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Yorick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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