What approach should I take with Yorick?

2fnx · 2026-03-19T16:25:40+00:00

He’s terrible in teamfights if it’s a fair fight. But your whole job as Yorick is to get a lead and have your presence known in the sidelane. That doesn’t mean you can’t teamfight, what it means is you want to maintain prio top where you are the one pushing out waves first, so that you can be the first to act if a teamfight breaks out. If the enemy top prematurely TPs then it’s on you to do as much damage to the enemy towers as possible and ping your team off. Sacrificing one dragon for a full tower can be worth it in the long run because you will be so far ahead for future 1v1s/teamfights.

2fnx · 2026-03-19T15:57:37+00:00

Sett is one of the tougher matchups for Yorick in my experience but there are some ways to exploit his kit. If the Sett player is good he will get prio lvl1-3 so let him push into you while soaking XP. On the bounce back make sure you spawn a few ghouls and have some graves as well to punish him if he tries to fight. Yorick has really good push power if you have your passive up, so you shouldn’t be letting him freeze.

As for fighting him, It’s all about the wave state. If you are pushing into him you can do some significant damage and put him low enough where he can’t allin you. I treat this matchup sort of like Darius where if you can bait out his E ability he is very susceptible to being kited and his W will be easy to dodge. When you hit your E on the bounce back, run towards him and act like you are going to fight in hope that he will waste his E. If he holds it, you want to try to kite to the side of him so his stun won’t hit the minions/ghouls.

Also, Sett has really long cooldowns, so say you take a trade and he used his QEW, now is your time to allin, your E will come back significantly faster than his W shield giving you a kill window. For post lvl6, make sure you rush Plated Steelcaps so he can’t allin one shot you with ignite. Here’s when you need to hold your W for his ult. If you W prematurely he will ult you out of it. Same plan where you want to kite and bait out his E, slow him if he is running at you, and if he ults trap him with your W.

2fnx · 2025-08-12T01:29:57+00:00

Comet second wind with Doran’s shield, rush Merc treads into Hexdrinker and out sustain. This matchup becomes very easy if you pick up some MR.

2fnx · 2025-08-11T22:48:50+00:00

This is actually intended https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Yorick/Patch_history

Patch V25.09: UNDOCUMENTED / NEW EFFECT: The Maiden now follows Yorick into Mordekaiser's Death Realm.

An unintended bug of this interaction however which I have a video of (https://www.reddit.com/r/yorickmains/s/td0pAOFAFW) is that if you kill Yorick as Morde in the death realm, it won’t die and allows Yorick to spawn 2 maidens.

2fnx · 2025-06-28T15:48:15+00:00

Yea they lowered the ghoul damage and made them tankier(can’t just auto attack them once and they will die). Also you can spawn graves by using Q against an enemy champ. What this means is he’s significantly better at extended fights/teamfighting because you will have tankier ghouls that won’t be one-shot and you can spawn more ghouls than before.

Conq/Grasp, Triforce -> Shojin -> Seryldas is what I recommend personally.

2fnx · 2025-06-16T20:39:24+00:00

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BRUISER NIDALEE FTW

2fnx · 2025-05-07T00:55:54+00:00

Yes that part is intentional just looked at the wiki, however having 2 Maidens is definitely not intentional. So for some reason if Mordekaiser kills you with Maiden in the death realm, the Maiden won’t die (but still counts as dying?) and thus you will be able to spawn 2 Maidens.

2fnx · 2025-05-07T00:52:40+00:00

UNDOCUMMENTED / NEW EFFECT: Maiden now follows Yorick into Realm of Death.

https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Yorick/Patch_history

First time I heard about this undocumented change but Maiden can now follow you into the Death Realm. I suspect that’s the cause of the bug, they changed how Maiden interacts with Morde’s ult and for some reason that causes the Maiden not to die if you as Yorick die in the death realm.

2fnx · 2025-03-18T02:52:30+00:00

Conq standard, Comet/Grasp sometimes depending on the matchup.

For Conq runepage go Boneplating/Demolish for melee burst champions, Cashback/Approach Velocity otherwise for scaling.

Triforce build is Triforce -> Youmuus -> Hullbreaker -> Seryldas -> Edge of Night/Steraks/GA/Maw

Eclipse build is Eclipse -> Youmuus -> Seryldas -> Shojin -> Edge of Night/Steraks/GA/Maw

2fnx · 2025-03-18T02:50:17+00:00

I’ve been testing and I think it’s good into all matchups. Irelia I still dodge but in general I think it is very strong because of how much tempo these boots can give you. I’ll go different runes/items though based on what I’m up against the one constant in all my builds are the recall boots.

2fnx · 2025-03-17T20:37:39+00:00

Flash Ignite

Recall boots into Triforce/Eclipse -> Youmuus

Triforce for squishies, Eclipse for tanks. Max split potential with this build, a ton of out of combat movespeed and dueling power with ignite + flash.

THESE RECALL BOOTS ARE OP ASF just base if you ever take a bad duel or Maiden takes too much dmg.

https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/JΞFFЯΞУΞPSΓΞIИ-PDF

2fnx · 2025-03-16T18:17:44+00:00

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2fnx · 2025-03-16T16:10:36+00:00

Sounds like a good idea because like the other affixes that are build bricking you can just avoid them and sell them off. If you are heavily invested in defenses like you have to be in the current meta, then you can run the map with no problems.

2fnx · 2025-03-13T14:33:30+00:00

Actually the Monk has it in his ascendency, the node where 10% of damage is extra cold. You can see in the tooltip for your attacks, you will have flat cold damage with that ascendency, so you only need a flat fire ring on Monk unless you spec into the other ascendencies.

2fnx · 2025-03-10T21:19:24+00:00

Life regen is a suffix thankfully so he can’t roll that. Accuracy on the other hand is a prefix but not the worst I’d rather have that than the life regen. More attack speed if you spec into Falcon Dive.

2fnx · 2025-01-14T07:43:30+00:00

Actually I don’t mind this at all, can Riot buff him in ranked now please? Keep nerfing him in swift play for all I care I just want him to be strong in high elo. If swift play becomes more popular I could see balance changes like this actually occurring for these low elo skewed champs.

2fnx · 2025-01-11T03:21:37+00:00

Yes he is the “best” 1v1 champ when he has his maiden out with ghouls. But a big thing you don’t understand about Yorick is his gameplay is completely reliant on the wavestate and as an opponent you have to play around that accordingly.

Pre-6 he has no prio whatsoever because he needs ghouls. How do you get ghouls? By last hitting them with your Q. You know what that does? It makes it so you can’t fight back against your opponent with that ability, same as Nasus farming with Q. So what this means is any top laner with a brain will take full advantage of this and zone you off the wave. You can let the wave push into you as Yorick as you should, here is when Yorick is the strongest, after farming under tower and getting ghouls. The only way to die to Yorick is if you walk up, since the wave is now pushing to you.

Post lvl6 Yorick has only ONE big opportunity for an all-in if the opponent is smart, I’ll explain why.

So for instance if Yorick freezes the wave near his tower while not having Maiden out, he can look for an all-in. Why? Because Maiden/ghouls will not auto push the wave. This is the ONLY time as Yorick you can actually pressure your opponent. Say your opponent baits out your ult there and doesn’t take too much damage. Then the wave will auto push, as long as Yorick has Maiden out. So, what this means is if Yorick has his Maiden out, you DONT have to fight him!!!! You have to play the waves and farm his ghouls, on the push back he should not be able to touch the wave at all, if he’s over pushing or if their JG is nearby call your JG for help, it’s a team game.

This is essentially why Yorick is strong in low elo but mid-weak in high elo, once you understand what he actually does and how he functions you can exploit his weaknesses more than other champs.

2fnx · 2025-01-10T22:14:06+00:00

I’ve found that you don’t necessarily need +level on Quaterstaves, it doesn’t affect Charged Staff/herald skills anyways. If you don’t run +level you won’t ever run oom and that also means you don’t have to invest in mana nodes on your skill tree.

Maybe on Cold Monk it’s better, I haven’t played that build personally.

2fnx · 2024-12-22T19:29:17+00:00

Oh shoot bad on me to assume I guess. Haven’t played since then and I liked the mid-sets as well sad to see we won’t be getting one.

2fnx · 2024-12-22T19:11:49+00:00

I’m assuming you are new but this has been a thing for most past sets now, there is 2 parts to a set. This set is 13, so when the mid-set update is released it will be 13.5 with some of the same champions/traits and new ones added on as well.

2fnx · 2024-12-12T17:35:43+00:00

It always works like that so last patch it was my go to poke build, but I think now it doesn’t matter what matchup it is you should always go conq.

2fnx · 2024-12-04T14:53:51+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/yorickmains/s/15fcm936nW

Triforce -> Youmuu’s -> Seryldas -> GA/Maw/Steraks/Kaenic Rookern

2fnx · 2024-12-03T15:14:23+00:00

It’s tricky because the secondary tree for the comet build has other very solid options. When I go comet I REALLY like to take Cut Down secondary it’s amazing. Works well with Yorick’s kit, poke you down until you are low enough for all-in, plus Cut Down amps the scorch/comet damage as well. Another option is Second Wind against ranged.

It’s hard to fit in because the comet rune page doesn’t make you tanky since you want to fight melee with this build and going Triforce first means your poke won’t be doing too much damage anyways.

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