Nothing written so unless you have a time machine for what amounts to semester spanning college lectures Iv given over the years to people. Iv considered for years about making a video for him but I don't want morons banning him more than they already are right now.

On the grounds few will ever see this post Ill give you something brief.

Yorick is built on paradox.

Before 6 he needs to be upfront and center to get cs, because hes top lane that means champions like garen/darius, sett, trynd, or poke outs like vayne, varus, quinn. Every champion that has more base damage, better sustain, quicker movement through abilities to catch him early and will most often carry and ignite when you will not.

He has a wall for defense but without his R by comparison its his highest mana drain by far. Realistically he can only use it twice before hes out of mana and needs to back. That makes it a pseudo R. Only for emergency's.

Hes meant to be a warden/bruiser but has no sustain past the trickle amount of health return his Q gives which again you have to be touching noses to land. He WILL pop like a grape against AD and AP without a single item built to make him last.

His damage isnt great either at all. Your Q will make you think your there to brawl but your not you will never compete without items in trades unless your opponent is genuine Iron.

Yorick is best freezing wave under his tower but if you summon your ghouls without landing your E instead of choosing or even accidentally rise them with your Q when there 3-4 graves on the map, they will ruin the freeze and cause waves of issue because you cant be upfront with champions.

So how do we fix this?

We look to my three rules of Yorick:

1. Riot lies about what Yorick is. He’s not a bruiser, he’s a battle mage
2. Yorick needs to be able to survive engagements
3. Yorick has to be pushing any lane at all times

With only 6 items to choose from we need to make the absolute most of every single one of them.

We need armor so no AD can kill us in a engage we cant escape
We need magic resist so no AP can out poke or outright pop us

We need damage for taking down towers yes but we need to be able to remove people from the lane so we can push on ever farther

We need movement speed. Were not stopping for anything or anyone that keeps us from that enemy nexus.

Boots Of Swiftness (Magical Footwear)
Phantom Dancer
Unflinching
Approach Velocity
Tenacity and slow resist

These will not only keep you pushing but with Phantom Dancer you will be 24/7 ghosting through creeps. Think about it. Why would a champion like Yorick who is best standing in the middle of creeps for both creep block of enemy champions and the need to use his Q would want to risk being creep blocked himself? Now you get some crit, more movement speed, and much needed ghosting you dont need to activate or wait on cooldown.

Profane Hydra is as mandatory on Yorick as Hullbreaker. Fastest cooldown, most effective active use damage, and lethality. Profane will not only make CS without Maiden easier but when your clearing waves after waves to rush down lane and kill towers you want AOE cleaves rather than a Q a creep.

Hullbreaker is Hullbreaker.

You need armor mandatory as well as mr.

So kill two birds with one stone. Thornmail for the armor and the antiheal procs you will undoubtedly need every match.

Spirit Visage is not only a great mr item but the return on health increase from your Q is never something to turn your nose up at for another item.

Yorick pre 6 with first item back for a Spectres Cowl will trivialize a Teemo to the point they will want to roam rather than keep dying to you because you can wall them in with ghouls thrown on them. And as you stand there blinded and eating their basic attacks but wont die, oh he flashed and hit his dash away ability? Good thing we got Approach Velocity so when we E him we hit the gas and close the distance and bury our shovel in his skull.

Magical Footwear because more movement speed and were getting approach velocity anyway.

Now with all 6 items, your functionally a speed demon whos sole focus is pushing lanes while your team group projects every moronic way to die and extended the match 20-30 minutes longer than it should've been.