The initiating dmg of W and E is magical but every ghoul does indeed do physical dmg while autohitting.

In my opinion, you should replace the Armor Pen runes with Magic pen, since 2/3 of his ghouls benefit from this and it GREATLY benefits his healing ghouls and damage when harassing. And if you get sorc shoes then get Eliesa's Miracle you will have mana regen and 30 Magic pen, effectively removing all defense from enemies for your harassing ghouls.

Made an account just to say that this is a great guide and has helped me achieve success with Yorick. He is one of my new favorite champions. Thanks for your hard work!

The skill sequence makes no sense. Your saying Yorick's Q does 400-500 damage after Trinity Force and you don't know why people max out W and E first. You max out W and E first because at the early stages, your not even close to Trinity Force.

Awesome guide, but you left out Yorick's number one lane partner, Zilean. Free homing missiles for Zilean with your ghouls AI! q: I hope they dont mess with the ghoul mechanics for a while, because this is epic harass when you have manamune, and your ghouls are chasing the enemy down with a bomb attached all the time. Zilean + Yorick + GA = so many lives i dont want to count! Lets throw Anivia into this game just for the trollolol's

@fangel123
1. with the new patch you dont need manaune because the 1-4 lvl youre laining and dont spamming abilitis and an lvl 4 you can get the bluebuff easy
2. the q skill do more dmg then w and e aber with 40% cdr it have only a 3 sek cd so you can spamm it: q->e->w->q...

hate to rain on your parade... but i dont quite agree with some of the things in this guide.
firstly the items, manamune is pretty much required to do anything, to allow him to spam which allows him to be OP. secondly the skills i feel that it should be e-w-e-q with priority being r>e>w>q. e is what makes yorrick able to 1v2,1v3,or even 1v4/5. and w is needed to keep his enemies from running away. as well, e and w are his ranged harrass. with q it is too hard to go in and harrass with it. so when going in for the kill, q is important but not needed to harrass at earlier lvls.

You mean your complete build is too expensive or Trinity ?
In case you meant Trinity: Try grabbing Tear-> Boots-> Manamune-> Phage-> Sheen->... for example




Normally every autohitting champ needs something like crit/a.speed to raise his dmg.

In Yoricks case however you have:
1) Bonus %Ad thanks to your passiv
2) Your ghouls do a big part of your dmg, but they dont benefit from anything except additional Ad
3) You´re an off-tank "Tanky-Dps", but seeing your build, you dont have any survivability at all o0.. (Trying to play him using your build would result in usefullness after being revived by your own ulti..) so you need to focus also on that end

Getting some crit/a.speed alongside the rest (Trinity e.g.) is fine, but dont focus on it: P.Dancer/I.Edge for example.

thanks
but is the dmg output not a bit to low without krit?
my build i think is:
Berserker's Greaves, Manamune, Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Black Cleaver, Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer

but its 1. very expensive and i dont konw that i can survive long enouth

ps: very nice krit and armor penetration

This guide is great, this is extremely similar to the way I had though to build him when he first came out, but since he was so gimped people made him into an off tank. +1

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20/6/16

I have to disagree with maxing Q first.... I've found that maxing Omen of Pestilence first really adds to his kit, and allows him to close in on enemies, harass and farm at the same time, and helps massively in ganks. While his Q does nice damage I simple don't feel it's a priority. I usually start Q>W>W>E>W>R, and max Pestilence, then War.