League of Legends Champion Yorick Yorick is in the a tier of champions

Yorick

Fighter Tank
Yorick is a fighter Role fighter
Difficulty Average
Power Spike Early-Game
Shepherd of Souls ability p
Last Rites ability q
Dark Procession ability w
Mourning Mist ability e
Eulogy of the Isles ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
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Yorick Build

based on 58,929 matches
Win Rate
51.3 %
Pick Rate
5.4 %
Ban Rate
6.3 %

How We Come Up with Our Yorick Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Yorick build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Yorick builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Yorick core items and runes for any situation.

Yorick Build Summary

Yorick is a a solid top lane champ in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Precision Resolve. Including the highlighted runes shown below in your Yorick build will provide you the bonus stats to help him play well through the laning phase of the match and into the late game. Yorick players should focus on leveling up his q ability first.

Best Build for Yorick

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Long SwordRefillable Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
SheenCaulfield's Warhammer

Core Yorick Items

~22 Mins
EclipseThe CollectorSerylda's GrudgeMercury's Treads

Optional Items

Titanic HydraBlack CleaverRavenous HydraMuramana

Summoner Spells

summonerteleport summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Yorick to level up q
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Second ability for Yorick to level up e
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Last skill for Yorick to max out w

Runes

Precision Conqueror OverhealLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
Resolve DemolishSecond Wind
Adaptive Adaptive Armor
Yorick's passive ability p
Yorick q ability q
Yorick w ability w
Yorick e ability e
Yorick's ultimate ability r
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Yorick Matchups Overview

Yorick is Weak Against

Irelia Irelia 44.1% winrate Kled Kled 46.4% winrate Tryndamere Tryndamere 47.3% winrate Sett Sett 48% winrate

Yorick is Strong Against

Rengar Rengar 60.7% winrate Gragas Gragas 56.2% winrate Jayce Jayce 56.1% winrate Illaoi Illaoi 56.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Sejuani Sejuani + 55.4% 693 Games Ziggs Ziggs + 56.1% 230 Games Heimerdinger Heimerdinger + 56.8% 800 Games Tahm Kench Tahm Kench + 62.8% 196 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Yorick Players

Tips and Tricks

Don't spam your abilities too much because they have high cooldown rates.

Use Dark Procession to escape enemy ganks and also to trap enemies when chasing them down.

The Maiden can be the critical damage necessary to take down enemies so keep her close enough.

Additional Yorick Build Insights

League of Legends Yorick players may find him to be a dynamic character to build out properly. You'll notice that his build is modified when he is fighting either well-rounded or highly focused team compositions, indicating you should not follow the same Yorick build every single game of League of Legends

The most essential items to include in your champion's build are: Eclipse, The Collector, and Serylda's Grudge. Those who added these items in their gear had a much better winrate than players who went for other builds for Yorick. Likewise, if you are trying to beat a mixed enemy team composition, you should strongly consider getting him the Precision, and Resolve runes. In recent matches, he won the largest fraction of his games when using these runes.

We came up with our Yorick build recommendations by analyzing 58,929 recently ranked League of Legends games with him in them. We only advise the best winrate Yorick builds that were used by ranked gamers enough times for us to advise them. With so many matches in our dataset, we are very confident in our provided builds.