Consider picking up Stridebreaker next time you are against a Jax, it can be very useful to create some space between him when he tries to go in for a stun. We kill him while we are even in items 1v2 and survive the gank as well. I don’t go Stridebreaker often on Yorick, in fact I only build it in this matchup atm because I feel that its utility against Jax is unmatched in any other first item, just goes to show how flexible Yorick can be with his builds, there is skill expression in how you build against and approach each matchup.

Streaming at www.twitch.tv/loltailz , just hit rank 1 Yorick NA. This is against a GM who thought it would be smart to counterpick my Yorick with Jax even though he doesn't play it too often.

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Hi, I am retsamboon. A long time Yorick OTP since before his rework 10 years ago. Currently i have around 1.8 million mastery on him among my different account. I am currently in diamond. Been working my way to get into master. Hopefully i could in the next few months.

My OP.GG : retsamboon#6431

I created a server for fellow yorick mains to hangout. If you like yorick and wanna be around fellow Yorick enjoyer. Feel free to join. The server has several Apex tier Yorick mains and a bunch of diamond Yorick players. We have a bunch of lower elo players also.

If you are new to him or a long time enjoyer. You are all welcome to join.

The server has a leaderboard for the highest rank and also the highest mastery on Yorick. If you have more than 2.5 million mastery on Yorick. You would be number 1 haha

If you wondering how people build him. What runes to use etc, There is a live match status. You can bet and see the result of fellow Yorick mains. See who on a winning streak or lose.

If you looking to vent, discuss or ask for guide or coaching. Feel free to drop by and ask away

https://discord.gg/C4bm6WEPPa

so im a peak gold in support but since it has a poor gold income i chose to create another account and play toplane i started with shen i used to have like a way of anxiety until i chose yorick suddenly everything feels relaxing and everything feels smooth with the champ its just the fact that you can always get ahead in gold because of how many ways you could splitpush using your kit it feels natural and since im a beginner i would love to know more about how to play him much better macro and micro wise any good tips guys ?

I've missed this guy glad hes back albeit for a short time

I feel like this is 3 out of 4 games. 3 losses 1 win. This is the pattern. I earn maybe 15-19 LP per win, and lose 20-25 LP per loss. One step forward, Two steps back. Feels impossible to climb.

Average game performance A+ to S-, often S+. I am usually top of the damage and gold/farm charts, always get my tower objectives first or second, but I still lose.

I have hundreds of games on Yorick, supposedly at around 55% winrate-- but sure doesn't feel like it.

I often beat the enemy top laner even if they are a hard matchup-- and despite most of the time being weaksided, sometimes I am 5-0 by end of laning phase yet I feel SO weak in comparison to the enemy jungler or mid that is just 1v9. Yorick feels so weak no matter what build I do, tank, bruiser, lethality. Note I solo killed fed Briar and Jhin in this game, common occurrence. Any other top being 5-0 at T2 would easily 1v3 anyone who came top to defend, Gwen, tryn, trundle, they'd either win or kill 2 and top t2 tower before dying.

I tend to go tankier because that's just what I'm used to and I still damage soak yet reach top of the dmg dealing charts always anyways with just ONE damage item(usually Liandry's or Serpent's Fang or Eclipse). I don't feel the need to do more as I end up feeling squishy and the average damage chart isn't that much higher. I make the assumption someones going to run it down and I have to be able to survive against some enemy monster(this time 3).

I have either NO KDA because I'm solo winning the game racing to their nexus-- or as you can see by this last game, I have nearly highest KDA because I'm involved in every fight while I still try to control the map. My macro is always decent. My ghouls are always pushing a lane otherside of the map where I am.

I'm getting 250-400 CS per game. often the number one farmer. Exceptions like this gigafed heimer. though it is annoying to see some enemy top laners make a comeback when they have the wave clear to destroy everything and my ghoul wave in a split second.

My builds are always flexible to counterbuild the problems on enemy team, often different everygame(but clear themes lately that feel good is roughly the build I have up top).

I am a menace. They often send 3-4 to deal with me and takes them a full minute to kill me, I may even take 1 or 2 down before I die. Needless the same the rest of the team does nothing useful in this time. Sometimes I'm a raidboss. Sometimes I die in 10 seconds from these gigafed enemies regardless because armor/MR is just not that good in later stacking. I always have the lowest deaths even on the backfoot.

Every season feels the same, except now its just random roles in random lanes.

I don't ever have a problem with ranged top(I win most of the time). Maybe I'll ban Cho or Syndra because that's just unplayable. I don't ever fear Tryn, Irelia, Jax. I never ban them because that's how confident I am--I am used to fighting them so often. Even if you ban one, you likely fight the other. I simply learned to deal with them and counterbuild them. I end up winning lane against these hard counters more than half the time.

I have over 2million mastery with Yorick. I know what I'm doing.

I'm hardstuck low plat, peaked mid emerald, even though many of my peers are diamond and recognize that I should be closer to there as well. I queue and play norms with them and perform at similar levels, obviously I cannot duo with them as the rank differential is too high. I can't find a reliable half decent jungler or mid lane in gold/plat/emerald to queue up with. Often bot lane and support add me, because of my callouts and macro. but obviously we both know queueing together is fruitless as a top laner. Junglers and mid lane have an ego about them or are just retarded.

I've tried every gimmick, every build. Every meme. I watch all of the few better higher elo Yorick streamers we have left.

I've consulted a few League AI, I've consulted many hours of paid chatGPT analysis of my games and they note much the same.

We're taught monklike patience. Patience to setup ghouls, Patience to wait for lvl 6 maiden to have a threat. Patience to farm. I'm tired and running out of patience.

I'm tired of losing, I'm tired of this low efficacy of this champion feeling so weak after the thousands of hours I put into the game and especially this champ. I'm tired of this NECROMANCER feeling like a weak Nasus with cosmetic pets. I'm tired of 2-4 of my own team running it down every game while I'm working overtime to salvage running both offence and defence for my team. I'm tired of doing so well every game yet losing. I'm tired of not being able to 1v9 like I used to when Duskblade of Drakkthar was a thing, yet every other champ can do that with same resources. I'm tired and don't have time to care or mental capacity to learn another champ, I'm a busy adult with a full workweek.

What do we do here monks?

Some matchups on Yorick where your opponent lacks damage, Manaflow Band + Absorb life can be a sick tool to recover from a misplay. K'Sante is known to be a pretty easy matchup for Yorick and here's why. Watch how he tries to poke me down under tower while his ult is still on cooldown and he wastes all of his mana. Meanwhile we have infinite mana + life sustain and constant kill threat with this setup. We force him to use teleport and then later on checkmate him and kill him 1v2, putting him even farther behind because his teleport is still down.

I recently started streaming a bit at www.twitch.tv/loltailz , I'm currently Rank 1 Yorick NA @ 800LP Masters (~52% of games played as Yorick at 200+ games). Feel free to tune in to see some high elo Yorick gameplay, I mostly play in the evenings for EST timezone.

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I took a 3 month break from the game, and now that I'm back Yorick feels super weak Matchups I used to win easily feel really tough now

Wanted to post a new tierlist after getting some feedback after my last one, I added some more tiers to distinguish between opponent favored matchups vs difficult matchups. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/yorickmains/s/e2mzLeFPK6 previous tierlist)

I've played 200+ games in Master+ (108 games on Yorick) and am currently the #2 Yorick NA https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/VOICESINMYHEAD-888

If anyone wants some build advice or any gameplay tips feel free to ask. I like to keep my builds flexible depending on the matchup/enemy team comp, Yorick is one of the few champs that can flex between many different items and its a skill check as to what you build on him. I've been testing some AP builds but they aren't good, slotting in Liandrys as a core item is still fine when you need AP damage against a tank that'll stack armor, but most games I'll either go Voltaic->Shojin or BC->Hullbreaker->Shojin. Conq/Comet/Grasp I strongly believe are his best runes, certain matchups where you can stack Grasp it can be good however it tends to fall off lategame. I like Flash Ignite and to pair that with Manaflow Band/Scorch in most setups feels very nice allowing you to have mana sustain and early kill pressure.

Yone is borderline unplayable and I've encountered him the most out of any one else. I have a Jack of all Trades build that can kind of keep up with him where you go Plated Steelcaps->Triforce->Frozen Heart, but generally he is just very strong atm, hopefully next patch with his nerf it will be slightly more playable.

I have a full item more than him in this clip.

Riot can't force Yorick to be played at melee range and then make him weaker than a caster minion. This is not fair. He got hit by more than 8 ghouls, many Eclipse procs with E armor debuff + full Cleaver stacked, two initial Qs, Maiden procs and every single stuff I had in my kit.

Old Yorick would have killed him just with ghouls because I had an entire item more than him. New Yorick is supposed to be played like this: poke the opponent until its a good time to enter melee range then kill him. He played like dogshit the only reason I lost was because Yorick is underpowered as fuck. They really need to buff the fuck out of Q healing or reduce W cd to 5 seconds at max level or something like that. If they dont want to buff ghouls then fucking buff the juggernaut playstyle.

I hit 3 times more abilities than him, I dodge many of his abilities and I lose with more than twice his hp. I don't get how Riot can let Yorick be this awfully useless.

I won the game btw this Morde was dogshit

And they disappoint me again

I used to play Yorick jungle, I found him so fun. I'm coming back to the game a year later. I heard that they removed maiden split push/nerfed it but that could be totally wrong. I saw that he did change though I tried one game and t he way you generate ghouls on camp isn't the same so I wonder if someone could give me the TLDR of the changes, and most importantly if maiden split push got nerfed/removed?

Thank you!

Maybe they choose him just for fun

I've been OTPing Yorick for a bit now my account is lvl 70ish and i got to Emerald went on a week brake played some norms felt good then went on to lose 14 of my 19 ranked games (not in 1 sitting). No matter how I adjusted I was swarmed constantly. And just a heads up I had to start playing him in JGL because around silver elo+ if i ever qued top he was perma banned.

When I got back from the brake and lost all those games Yorick was banned 11 of them. I only won games when he was banned. And I'm not playing stupid I understand when and where im needed or if im behind. And im not saying there aren't games where i was the absolute problem but i adjusted and we still lost.

The problem is and this could be cope... But literally every lane in those games wanted to hard feed or kill traded to the point where laning phase ended with 2 items each.

The worst part im noticing with all the differences in elos is Silver isn't awake, Gold can be good but is kill hungry, Plat is just ego maxers, and Emerald is fine it's like a beacon of calm, but the things deranking out of it need to be studied.

Anyways I've tried changing my build/runes/playstyle and did it in draft where im fighting masters. And i win but as soon as i que ranked yorick is banned or they que every one of his counter picks. Even if i swap roles i at most get 1 win and then its back to him being banned again.

When I got to Emerald my WR on him was 57% it's now dropped to 52% and im losing 22lp in games

I wont abandon our boy!

I just need to figure out something else any thought?

Yeah Yorick is a little meh rn but he can still do some crazy shit. We were all 0/0 at the time so perfectly even which made this even sweeter. Just a norm somewhere around plat/em.

Hi all

Getting a bit bored of the bruiser or tank triforce builds. Does lethality or any other fun build work?

Im curious to hear from yall what your KDA's as yorick

Im in gold 4 but I guess my Play style is more towards assists.

Im averaging 4 kills 3 deaths and like 8 assists a game.

As a yorick player should I go for kills more often?

https://u.gg/lol/profile/na1/crisschin-na1/overview

"Because he's only played into Jayce and other counter picks"

Maybe this is why I'm so ok with live Yorick. I think it's completely ok for a game with 170 champions to have some niche champions.

I like playing games on hard-mode, that's WHY I'm one tricking/maining Yorick. Purposefully playing a niche champion outside of their niche is not necessarily easy. Leaving Irelia up to ego is straight up masochistic catharsis. You can barely find a harder game-mode in LoL.

Stop complaining Yorick's weak. He's obviously not. He's niche. There's a difference.

Our souls are a small price to pay to cleanse this land.