Yorick vs K'Sante TOP Matchup Guide

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Yorick into K'Santemedium

Overview

Use graves and to mark K'Sante, forcing him to respond to your splitpush pressure.
Maintain medium lane pressure to disrupt K'Sante's melee control and prevent safe stacking.
Outscale K'Sante by leveraging Maiden's sustained tower pressure and your ghoul setup.

Set graves before engaging and use to mark K'Sante, then send ghouls to maximize damage.
Use to trap K'Sante when his and are on cooldown.
Avoid trading without graves, Maiden, or when misses, as your damage and pressure drop significantly.

Avoid fighting when K'Sante has 3 stacks ready for his knockback and slow.
Do not trade while K'Sante's displacement and damage reduction are active.
Stay clear of terrain angles post-level 6 to minimize risk from K'Sante's isolation and displacement.

Prioritize preparing graves early to enable strong trades before K'Sante hits level 6.
Avoid extended fights without ghouls or marks to prevent losing trades to K'Sante's poke and displacement.
Deploy Maiden as soon as possible to force K'Sante to respect your side-lane threat and limit his farming.

Level 6 unlocks Maiden with , massively increasing your side-lane pressure and duel potential.
Prepared graves plus a landed mark amplify your ghoul damage and wave control.
Respect K'Sante's level 6 spike which enables isolation and displacement near terrain.

Use graves, , and Maiden to force K'Sante off farm and create sustained tower pressure.
Trap K'Sante with when he is immobile or after key cooldowns to win trades.
Deny K'Sante safe farming and stacking by maintaining pressure and punishing cooldowns.

Tactical tip

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