Yorick with Akali
How to Synergize Yorick and Akali
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Yorick Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Akali
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Akali
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 Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Yorick Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yorick sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Yorick perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Akali, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that Akali provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Akali on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Yorick during teamfights.
Synergies between Yorick and Akali
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Yorick that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Yorick. By playing on the same team as Yorick, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Yorick and Akali that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you must be cautious when arranging Akali allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Yorick and Akali together, you will not be providing your other allies very much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to synergize with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Yorick and Akali synergy build include The Collector, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Akali with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Yorick and Akali pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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