Yorick with Katarina
How to Synergize Yorick and Katarina
based on 2,841 Yorick with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yorick Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Yorick Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Yorick perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick is an ally to Katarina, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Yorick during team fights.
Synergies between Yorick and Katarina
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect companion for Yorick that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Katarina is a below average teammate for Yorick. By playing on the same side as Yorick, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Yorick and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means Yorick players need to be careful when lining up Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Yorick and Katarina together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough support. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yorick to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Yorick and Katarina synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Yorick players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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