Bard vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Bard
based on 2,225 Bard vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Yorick
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Bard versus Yorick matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Yorick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Yorick
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Who is Better, Bard or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Yorick, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Yorick.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Yorickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Yorick matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Bard is an above average counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a lot less CS as Yorick. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Yorick build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Yorick than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Yorick as Bard, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard vs Yorick counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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