Nocturne vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Nocturne
based on 5,179 Nocturne vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Yorick
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Nocturne against Yorick counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Yorick
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when taking on Yorick, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter to Yorick.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Yorick.
Additionally, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Yorick matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nocturne is a good counter for Yorick. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often picks up a lot less CS as Yorick. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nocturne versus Yorick build consist of Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Yorick than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 52.9% battling Yorick with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Yorick as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nocturne vs Yorick battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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