Yorick vs Vayne Counter Pick

Vayne carries the tool that should beat a health-stacking fighter and still loses the matchup. Silver Bolts turns every third hit on the same target into a percentage of maximum health, and 2,588 health at level 18 is exactly the pool that punishes. The 16.13.1 record disagrees anyway: 58.4% for Yorick over 389 games.

Survivability is the reason. Vayne starts on 550 health with 23 armor, one of the most fragile openings in the game, and reaches only 2,301 by level 18. She also has to land three hits on the same target, which is awkward when Mist Walkers surround her and each of them is a legal target that advances nothing. Condemn knocks a single champion back and stuns against terrain, but Dark Procession creates terrain of Yorick’s choosing, and the ghouls that matter are unaffected by the push.

Difficulty is a genuine factor here — 8 for Vayne against 6 for Yorick — because her damage depends on precise spacing at 550 range while moving at 330 against 340. Her output is physical and Yorick’s is mixed, so armor is a reasonable purchase in both directions, and Final Hour’s bonus attack damage and Tumble invisibility are best respected from behind a wall rather than in open ground.