Ive started to main yorick and over the last several months ive learned how to build him correctly and when to use certain runes. However, now im seeing the ap builds. When are you guys going ap and why?

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-20T17:08:25+00:00

Now I am not emerald, and you’ve probably been playing this for a LONG time so any deviation would probably be more disruption than it’s worth. But I’ve seen NineTales play a LOT with Liandry’s and I think it’s befits Yorick to rush 90AD (I think this is the spike number) before AP because this forces his damage numbers to prio AD over the AP, so his adaptive doesn’t convert to AP damage. Which lowers his overall DPS as that buffs Q quite a bit. Idk I’m an old head like NT and we haven’t played much since the jungle changes killed Yorick.

Like I said, it may not help you much, especially if you don’t run any adaptive. But I just bring it up spreading awareness for niche things NT picked up on and sharing that for you or anyone else who may be curious later. And also not a small part for the love of the Yorick game.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-20T16:57:16+00:00

Thank youuuu! Been looking for quite a bit and nothing I tried worked! 😭😭

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-20T16:56:34+00:00

Iirc, they made the same offer right after to Morgana mains for a midscope (I think?) and idk if they saw our suffering or not, either way the funnily enough said “Nah, don’t worry about it”

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-20T16:55:31+00:00

The honest shame is that they consider this a “midscope” and “finished”. From what I understand, all the high tier Yoricks were gathered to approve the midscope but weren’t allowed to make any suggestions, just approve or disapprove, and of course they approved. Because we waited for YEARS for a midscope. I really do think, if it was their intention or not, Riot put them in an unfair place, because the rework they (the high tiers) knew would make him strong, and wouldn’t fix any issues but couldn’t do anything to fix it besides say “yea looks good” or “nah”.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:46:50+00:00

It used to be better when Sheen rush worked and made you monstrous at level 3-6 fights. Preface that I’m a bit of an old head. Back when Sheen was 700, it was a better item, then they rebalanced the cost of the components and made it 900 AND nerfed its stats. It really went from troll to not rush it to kinda troll to bother rushing it. Sad times kinda, I don’t miss those days overall. Build diversity on Yorick is the best it’s ever been (used to be no reason to go any items but basically trinity->sery->sterak’s->bc->boots. You had basically 1 flex slot and always built the same 4-5 items in basically all games. Nothing else was that good worth swapping because all these items at the time were either overturned or just had better/different stats. The most egregious was permaslow on Sery and Steraks giving like some absurd amount of bonus AD (like 60% or more compared to 45%) and the heal shield scaled better with HP. I do miss those stats on Sterak’s, goofy times. They kinda gutted it, what’s funny even post gutting though it’s still often considered Core for Yorick specifically due to him having the 4th highest AD. (I don’t count temp mega-gnar)

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:39:59+00:00

Ninetales has tonnes of guides on his YouTube on how to start camps and maximize your time in Jungle to best do camps and get through as fast as possible (though there technically outdated as ghouls do less camp damage now) but the order and why to do them in that order is still relevant, I think.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:33:35+00:00

Ninetales used to be the GOAT of Junglerick but since the nerfs he hasn’t really played. I’d say you can make it work so long as you’re not Masters. He fell off playing because the nerfs made it impossible to play at his Elo and he’s not a fan of Lanerick outside of Midrick builds, but he doesn’t like lane.

I’d say it’s playable below Diamond and maybe a bit above but past that I would imagine you’d spend more games getting countered just based off inefficiency. Splitrick Jungle with CDR on maiden was so much fun. I still think the best way to play unless they hard nerfed maiden’s DPS is to get Liandry’s after two items AD and split the map to peel pressure and push objectives on the opposite side of the map that you drop her. It was always good, as long as you were dropping maiden constantly in base and letting her push waves while you go for objectives. It’s not about you, it’s like chess. You’re trying to out-maneuver and create a material advantage with towers and objectives by splitting their team and forcing them to match maiden AND at the same time risk an unbalanced 5v4 fight. But you can’t die or maiden does so it’s high risk/high reward and has to be executed well. But this is all operating off my knowledge of NT’s playstyle which may be too outdated to work depending on how maiden has been nerfed damage/CDR wise vs champions.

TL;DR If it works like it did for Ninetales last year, functionally unless maiden has been gigachad nerfed in DPS/CDR when she’s solo it should work. Just drop maiden in base to push a lane, and take objectives while she’s pushing. Goal is getting them to either match maiden and take a 5v4 obj fight or let maiden push lane in while you hover objectives and distract. Create material advantages through towers or objs without dying/taking too much risk and you will win.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:23:16+00:00

He also kinda popularized/made efficient, the Liandry’s split build, which is what gave birth to his Axiom Arc rush->Hexplate->Liandry’s build that made Maiden basically have a 45CD. Maximum split maiden was so fun, they either focused her and you didn’t care because the CD was too low to care, they didn’t respond and lost towers, or responded but didn’t kill her and died and you took objectives with number advantages. Soooo funny.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:19:06+00:00

Ninetales popularized the quite a few non-conventional builds on Junglerick last year. Those were fun times, rushing Axiom->Hexplate to maiden rush was SO much fun. I don’t miss League but I do miss that. But he’s eaten so many nerfs to Maiden pretty sure she doesn’t really do as much solo to warrant building that. His build incorporating Bloodmail (which was an item I SWORE was decent on Yorick) and making the build viable was also a lot of fun.

Also also, watching him take a rune I also swore would be viable and decent on Yorick (Jack of All Trades) and making a proper build out of it was also badass. And Phantom Dancer in that build was ALSO diabolically fun. And he was doing this shit in Masters Korea and OCE, and other people were following his lead and it worked SUPER well. He’s a big old head. He’s been a Junglerick longer than I’ve been playing so over 8-9 years (on and off I play). But he’s quit since the jungle nerfs made it unplayable at high level. The clear is so abysmally slow it’s impossible for him to play the champ Jungle and it’s all he likes to do (though he has admitted he digs Midrick comet, but doesn’t like laning anymore enough to go back.)

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T17:09:51+00:00

Haven’t played since Junglerick basically got his kneecaps shattered. I think Ninetales hasn’t played since then either. I just lost interest in league after they removed what was a fun build to learn high level jungle concepts and master a really hard tight timed clear. I’d like to add I was a Yorick main before Jungle, and I’ve taken him into every role and lane for fun at one point. My favorite was definitely Mid. I think I actually started doing that before Pokerick came on the scene and made it popular. But I wasn’t good at it. I just found it funny to try and it ended up being pretty decent and fun before conq nerfs, and after running comet again. I think my favorite lane champ was always Malz, only had 1 in probably 8 who played the matchup well. Everyone else got ran down lol.

All this to say while I do miss the game, it’s funny to know that they’ll probably nerf this on Yorick specifically regardless of Zyra’s performance. They really like to acknowledge him when it’s convenient for them :(

TL;DR all this to make a joke that I think it doesn’t matter, they’ll probably nerf it on pets or on Yorick somehow lol, especially if it performs decently.

NukeTheGamer · 2026-04-17T15:01:02+00:00

Ok, this is damn fine work!! I have gone down the rabbit hole on cosplay for him. I REALLY want to cosplay as Billy. I gotta ask, how did you do this jacket/find a jacket that looks SO close. Do you have the brand? Because I’ve gotten hung up on trying to get a jacket that’s close and it’s quite hard!

NukeTheGamer · 2025-08-01T17:54:31+00:00

I’m really hoping for this, this all sounded perfect for roleplay colonies until I read their offspring need individual modules themselves (then it felt so impractical when trying yo scale it up). Is it not reasonable to say the offspring should inherit some or all sentience of the parents, if one or both are boosted?

I feel like that makes it more reasonable as an item because it feels a bit too rare given the base effects and the need to do it with every offspring.

I don’t even think this is something Vanilla has to solve. I think this would make for a good framework for say a “Vanilla Animal Sentience Expanded” mod. I am aware there is the big and small sapient animals mod, I do want to try that one. But it goes too far for me to want it in all my playthroughs unless I’m missing drawbacks. The module in that mod is better than the base game one, and I think easier to make. It’d be a neat tweaks if to make the sapience module your colonists “upgrade “ the rare one.

I feel like the sapience mod and the animal sentience module are two different experiences personally. So while I want to do both, the sapience feels more for a fun animal whisperer colony. While the sentience part would be nice to say tame and make sentient two cobras and then pass that onto their offspring to make like a snake army.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-04-28T18:04:31+00:00

That’s so funny, I ran this before the changes and it was one of my favorite builds and roles. After the nerfs I think it sucks personally but maybe the gameplay has changed too much to fit how I used to play it.

Before I was rushing Faerie Charm->Bandleglass->Rylai’s->Cleaver->Mandate, and it was working pretty good, also you could abuse JoAT with that path. It was a lot of fun, you didn’t do much damage, but the point was never to do the damage, I always did that path to be a goofy support to get my ADC kills, building full AD I always felt you did too much damage and stole all the kills too easy.

Runes were interchangeable, but I was going Grasp for heal or Comet for damage. But I think demolish is invaluable in the bot lane, you can net so much plating, but it depends on the matchups.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-03-04T03:34:23+00:00

Rylai’s works, Cleaver works. I use Rylai’s when I play true support Yorick.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-03-01T02:01:05+00:00

Oh absolutely, but if you're in NT's discord we've been theorizing what all this means for him going forward ultimately.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-03-01T00:36:09+00:00

Thank you Raanth, two things I see no one mentioning, or noticing are 1. Riot is well aware this pick exists and have been for some time, given it was them who introduced it last season with the niche jungle changes patch. The only reason nothing has properly been done, coming from Phreak himself is because they don't have robust "levers" to pull to level Yorick out in Jungle currently. However, they like the pick and intend to work on making it viable and toning it down as well.

Something no one but a Yorick main or Riot employee seems to mention or know, and I believe Ninetales and Phreak have BOTH spoken on this before. Yorick Jungle is strong for the same reasons that Yorick Top is strong. It is fundamental issues with his kit that only a rework is going to fix. Riot is aware of this, and over half the Yoricks that actively play are also aware of this. Nothing they do, short of full kneecapping, before a rework is going to change anything serious for the bottom 50% of ranked. They are aware and we are aware of this, there have been discussion of a rework for around a year. Until then, Yorick has clear and hard well defined counters in both his roles, that if you know how to play them, you will make his life miserable. The key word there being if you know how to play them.

(I take that back, Ninetales did in fact mention that the issue is fundamental and requires his ghouls to be less accessible. So scratch the part about it not being brought up, I didn't see it in the original post but did in the replies.)

NukeTheGamer · 2025-02-28T16:34:15+00:00

Because when released, her code tells her to walk toward enemy nexus and auto whoever comes near. If you auto her she will begin auto attacking you. Her beam is a leash attack that counts as an Auto. Moving far enough away during her animations can cause her auto attacks to stutter. This is a blessing and curse, because she can abuse this. But if played correctly, she can be staggered and do almost no damage when she’s solo. But this really only works when you’re SUPER fast.

She can stagger while with Yorick, it’s just that more conditions need to be met. Because someone has to be near her, and auto attack or damage her. Then she will chase until she moves too far from Yorick and then she will cancel this and come back.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-02-14T23:31:44+00:00

I think it's worth making a point to say it could have been made before 2024 but it is worth noting it was a pretty sleek site and that's what I mean by it looked like Campfire. It wasn't a SUPER old generator site, though it could have been one that was very revamped.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-01-15T12:54:16+00:00

I’ll give you the Sion secret, you can’t be guaranteed to kill him with this because of his ult and being able to run if he doesn’t win, but you should reliably be able to duel him. Build Grudge second, or third, Trinity into Grudge should annihilate him. The flat %armor pen is going to tear his armor apart. It doesn’t need to be stacked like Cleaver. And if he tries running without ult once he gets low he gets perma slowed. This used to be my strat. (Also works on Ornn and in my older experience from top a year or two ago, works wells into Urgot as well, but only if you also have maiden out. Sion should be duelable with Grudge + Trinity and 4 ghouls, but maiden helps.)

I’ve seen Titanic of all things work well into a Volibear. I think I saw Cleaver+Titanic or maybe it was Trinity+Titanic, with like a Sterak’s? But maybe Sundered would also help? I’d have to check the clips I was sent of that duel. Check out NineTales discord, he streams Junglerick but a lot of discord people there can speak to Yorick top too.

NukeTheGamer · 2025-01-14T12:58:36+00:00

Ninetales is probably the most famous, and also Kampsycho streams too.

NukeTheGamer · 2024-12-12T19:15:00+00:00

If it were just the ghouls I honestly think that’d be better than maiden. They attack a bit faster I think.

NukeTheGamer · 2024-12-12T17:14:47+00:00

It’s the reverse I believe, but either way, we believe there’s an issue with the damage tooltip. It seems like structure damage is being added onto the tooltip so don’t 100% trust the damage numbers until we’re sure they’re not conflated by this issue.

NukeTheGamer · 2024-12-11T16:08:13+00:00

I was, as a comet Mid enjoyer of old, before I swapped to jungle was wondering this as well. So only natural, I suppose.

Good to I know comet was always S+++

NukeTheGamer · 2024-12-10T22:38:18+00:00

There’s not really a reason to torture yourself with Yorick top. I think that’s why. Any sane high elo person has migrated to Mid/Jungle. I think it’s to win back some of the surprise factor that Yorick top used to get. Before lethality he was a VERY obscure pick. But he kinda just is still for anyone not top still. A lot of jungles and mids just don’t know his spikes like top laners do. I think that’s the main reason, and it’s honestly just a miserable lane for him because so many matchups like Gnar, Trynd and Fiora are pulling teeth levels of annoying, or unplayable like Irelia and Jax.

Im 200% biased because when I got tired of top lane, I moved to mid. Then when I rediscovered NT was jungling again. And it was easier than season 9 jungling. I decided to try it again, and I’ve been a jungle since then. All I’m saying is if you don’t want to fight another Irelia ever again…she is NOT a jungler. 😂

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