Yorick vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Yorick
based on 3,036 Yorick vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Malzahar
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 Win Against Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Yorick vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Yorick in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Yorick vs. Malzahar counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Yorick usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Yorick or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually wins when facing off against Malzahar, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a good counter for Malzahar.
While Yorick does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Yorick also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Malzahar.
Additionally, Yorick has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Malzahar matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yorick is a decent counter for Malzahar. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yorick against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yorick versus Malzahar build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Malzahar as Yorick, Yorick players 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 sets we have analyed for Yorick vs Malzahar counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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