Yorick is really weak when he has no ghouls in the early game, level 1 2 and 3 mainly, after that getting Ghouls becomes a bit easier

Yorick is really weak after someone killed the maiden or if the maiden isn't with him for a 1v1
(Not noticeable when fed but when behind it can really hurt to not have the maiden)

Yorick is really bad at team fighting in comparison to other champions assuming its a 5v5 or even in numbers kind of team fight
This is why split pushing is a great thing to do for Yorick whenever possible

Maiden can't be used for team fights because people will kill her too easily before she is actually able to do anything
A way to deal with this is to release her to a sidelane before grouping if that's what must be done preferably with a cannon wave.

This is Yorick's Q it enhances your next auto-attack within 6 seconds with damage and gives it 50 bonus range when you press it, it also heals Yorick for 12-82 based on level Doubled when Yorick is below 50% health
For every point you put in it reduces the cooldown from 7 / 6.25 / 5.5 / 4.75 / to 4.
(7 Being with 1 point in Q and 4 being with 5 points in Q)
It also does more base damage for every point you put in Q it goes from
30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / to a maximum of 130.

It also has a 40% AD scaling so 40% of your ad will be added to the damage of your Q. 30 being 1 point in q and 130 being 5 points in Q as Yorick you want to get 5 points into this ability as it's your primary way to get graves to spawn ghouls from because every time your Q kills a minion or jungle camp it leaves a grave that you can use to spawn ghouls to a maximum of 4.

And this is also the best ability to deal damage to your opponent or fight because this is your primary damage ability with good damage and a low cooldown and counts as an animation cancel for your auto-attack this means if your auto-attack is almost finished and you press Q your auto-attack will do its damage and then immediately after your Q does its damage.

This is Yorick's E For every point you put in it it does more damage from 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / up to 210 (+ 70% AP Scaling) Which is not enough to build AP items for in case ur wondering.

And it reduces the cooldown from 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 and 8 is 5 points in your E and 12 being only 1 point invested into your E.

Your E Is an Area of effect or AoE skill shot with a target range of 700
which when hit marks enemies for 4 seconds and slows them for 30% for 2 seconds.
Ghouls will leap to the enemy marked by your E
And Yorick The ghouls and the maiden get 20% bonus movement speed when walking towards a marked enemy.

This is Your W
1 second after you use it it creates a cage or circular wall around the area where you had your mouse when you pressed it

The cooldown goes from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / down to 12 seconds cooldown, 20 being with 1 point in your W and 12 being with 5 points in your W

The Cage does not do damage by itself and enemies can not go through it but allies can and it can only be killed by enemy towers or auto attacks from your enemy.

1 or 2 points in w means that your wall has 2 health.
3 or 4 points in w means that your wall has 3 health
5 points in W means your wall has 4 health
Enemy champions need 1 auto-attack to remove 1 health from your wall and it will die when it reaches 0 health or gets attacked by an enemy tower.
W has a target range of 600

This is the maiden, the maiden has a cooldown of 160 / 130 / 100 with 100 being with 3 points in R.
When you Reactivate R it sets the maiden free who will run it down the lane that's closest to where the maiden is but its not very accurate in your base or fountain until you get past your inhibitor tower.

Your goal is to keep your maiden with you for as long as possible after summoning her she stays within 600 range of you mostly being at the 600 range away from you so to keep her alive you might have to walk back far or go into a brush so that the maiden comes towards you as long as she is not within 600 range of a minion or attacking someone marked by your E or released she will come towards you when you create more distance than 600.

When the maiden is near a minion that dies it will spawn a ghoul that upon attacking a minion in a lane will run it down that lane (This is the thing all ghouls will do)

She will also spawn ghouls when she is in range of an opponent the skuddle crab or a jungle camp with 1 for every creature or enemy dying but these ghouls will follow you around until they die from 1 auto-attack or take damage from abilities or get into combat or range of a minion.

This is your passive also known as Shepherd of souls
You get 1 grave for every 12th, 6th or 2nd minion or jungle monster that dies.

Its 12 from level 1 to 6 And at level 7 it will be 6th jungle monster or minion and at level 13 or higher it will be the second jungle monster or minion that will give you a grave.

Only 4 graves can exist at once with the ones furthest away from you being replaced with a new grave.

Control wards or more commonly known as Pink wards are very good for taking objectives like dragons or Baron, or simply to deny an enemy vision of certain areas and it's also very good.

if you want to have ur location unknown to the enemies which could be a very good strategy to kill enemies who decide to randomly walk into the jungle, however, be careful doing this as multiple enemies can follow them up if they have any idea of you being there.

I recommend using your regular ward at 2:25-2:29 and no later if the enemy jungeler started bottom side, it does not matter whether you put the ward in the river bush because you ended up pushing your enemy laner in or you use it on the second bush in the toplane because you are getting pushed in and don't want to die to a lane gank.

Its always better to use your ward and have it be ineffective then to never put it on cooldown, however, be aware to not ward places away from objectives that are near spawning time if you are close to them.

Against most champions, before level 6 you do want to be careful with melee engaging.

Yorick excels at farming safely under his tower which also has the additional benefit that you cant be ganked as easily.

If your jungeler is fighting at the skuddle crab I recommend ping him off of the skuddle with danger pings or even ping him before he gets there to tell him that you can't help you just back off we cant contest this.

Because even if you do decide to come and help out your jungeler who has decided to fight at the skuddle you are most likely too late, and if you arrive in time you will miss Experience and gold from toplane and then both of you will die to the enemy toplaner and jungeler.

The enemy pushing you in constantly also has the added benefit that if you have a jungeler that's good at ganking your enemy laner is very gankable.

At level 6 you have the opportunity to kill lots of opponents who before that you would not be able to 1v1 so its a great idea to be prepared to duel anyone at that point unless mentioned otherwise under the difficult matchups.

If at this point you kill your enemy laner its advisable to siege for tower plating with demolish if your enemy laner has teleport you want to back off from his tower 6 seconds before he is respawning to give you enough time to walk back to a brush or safe spot and base.

If however the enemy laner went ignite or has already used his or her teleport this is a great opportunity to either get another plating if you can keep the maiden alive whilst doing this.

And of course, walk to a safe spot and base immediately after taking that 1 more plating.

You do want to be careful of the enemy jungeler when getting plating if you are below 70% health or its an enemy jungeler who can 1v1 you because he or she is fed.

This is when the minion wave stays at their current position
This could be because both waves are even.

or your wave or in this scenario the enemy minion wave has 1 - 3 minions more.
in this case, your enemy laner is trying to clear the minions in a way that the wave coming from your side doesn't get too big to slow push or crash into his/her tower so keeping it at a maximum amount of 3 more minions and last hitting them so that it doesn't get too big and it won't push towards your side of the lane.

(Often done so that you cant last hit minions without them engaging on to you or so that you don't get the experience or gold from the minions on their side that die to your bigger wave)

This is when the wave is not being Frozen by either side and either your minion wave or the minion wave from your enemy laner is bigger than your minion wave so that it gets to end up having a lot of minions inside of it the benefit of doing this is that the person slow pushing the wave can base, make a roam make a tp play invade the to them enemy jungeler and duel them or steal camps or get vision of their jungle.

this is when the wave is not slow pushing but has significantly more minions so that it pushes fast to the opposing side the benefit of this is that you have time to base or can poke your enemy laner under their tower where they are trying to last hit their minions.

(poking doesn't apply that much to Yorick) so basing to avoid being ganked would be a good example of why you would want to push the wave if it's not at your side of the lane where ur safe from ganks.

Grouping, with this, is meant being with your teammates all in the same lane and trying to catch an enemy who mispositions (often attempting to kill them) or in the case of you being Yorick this does not apply to you that much but, poking enemies from a safe distance or if ahead trying to force a team fight by using your w to make someone unable to immediately disengage after mispositioning

When to group?
1 - Both sidelanes have a wave that slowly pushes into the enemy's tower
2 - You left maiden in a sidelane with a cannon wave
3 - You are behind by and cant duel your enemy laner who repeatedly catches the waves before you can siege their tower or do damage to it.
4 - Your team is behind and you don't think that they can safely manage to win a fight without being dove by the enemy team and then them ending the game off of that or potentially getting baron or more.
5 - You just pushed out Botlane Or Toplane with a cannon minion and put 4 ghouls inside of that lane (Aka a rotation)

A rotation is where you as the word implies rotate from your current position to another spot on the map,

This could be pushing out bot lane with the maiden and going to the dragon after.
This could be pushing out bot lane with the maiden and running to baron to start the baron
This could mean Pushing out Toplane or Botlane and then running to mid lane because your enemy laner sees that there is a big wave in either bot or top that you pushed out and they don't want it to crash into their tower.

This could also mean pushing out bot lane, walking to the enemy blue or other camps and taking them, potentially moving to mid after and then walking to toplane to push out that wave and basing after which you decide to go bot again to stop the wave that's almost crashing into bot tower and then making a decision on whether to split or rotate from there.

The Advantage of a rotation is that you can both have the enemy tower pressured by minions on either side of the map or one of those towers, and then still be there for your team or to catch someone off guard and execute them whilst your enemy laner has to make a decision on whether to catch that wave that you pushed out or to be there for his team to stop you from engaging on to them or making the fight even.

To split push you want to make sure that you know where every one of the enemy champions is.

My definition of split pushing in this explanation is having your team as 4 in mid grouped up together and then having either 4 or 5 enemies or 3 also in the mid.

When split pushing it is required to look at the minimap at least every 2-3 seconds if not more to make sure that you can still see at least 3 enemy champions in mid, the ones who are fed or you just cant fight 1v1 or 1v2.

You absolutely need to know where every possible threat on the enemy team is on the minimap.

Okay, so now you see most enemies in mid, or at least the ones that pose a threat to you combined and you are 100% sure that they aren't coming to stop you.

So what you do at this point is wait for a cannon minion and your w so that it will take minion aggro before the maiden

(This is after you have no ghouls within the tower range and the cannon minion is dead the next target for aggro is your maiden)

Because you generally do not want to lose the maiden unless you released her into the other sidelane which is a bit advanced

Or haven't spawned her yet, But while ur on the enemy tower with a cannon minion and demolish you want to look at the minimap as often as possible when you notice that enemies don't show in mid anymore you want to run to a lane brush.

If you know enemies can't reach you base or base on the spot if you are inside of a brush or are sure a minion won't cancel your base.

Running however is most often a safe bet and you can use your W to create distance if necessary.

When is it a good idea to Splitpush?
1 Ur ahead and confident in dueling your enemy laner or even 2 or 3 people at once.
2 Your team has great waveclear in mid and the enemies lack waveclear to stop your team from crashing waves into their tower.
3 The other sidelane is being pressured by a slow pushing wave or a teammate or even multiple if not all teammates.
4 Your teammates are on the opposite side of the map doing Baron or Dragon.

The advantage of split pushing is that you can get towers or inhibitors in the side lane while your teammates either get nothing or come across an enemy being alone, with too few people to stop your team from engaging on to them and killing them or diving them.

Because the enemies do need to make a decision: do we stop Yorick or do we stay mid to defend our mid towers and in both scenario's they will lose their towers or they leave someone with good waveclear top that then cant be in a team fight.

or they leave someone or 2 people who you as fed Yorick can kill to be against you, creating an uneven team fight in mid that your team should be able to win.

(Ur basically only giving the enemy team options in which they get behind or will be unable to win fights or keep their towers from being sieged)

This is an example where an armor increase changes the % physical damage reduction from a 2 increase to only a 1% increase in physical damage reduction.

Here is an example of 214 armor build, where we only have 68% physical damage reduction


This is with 172 armor so as you can see the 42 armor only gave us 5% physical damage reduction where instead we could've had 25% armor pen and grievous wounds instead when we scale very well with ad on both ourselves as our ghouls

Here is another example of an armor heavy build, even though the build is pretty good into attack speed reliant crit champions such as Tryndamere/Lots of ADC's and also good against Yasuo, the obvious problem with it is we don't gain much physical damage reduction from building this much armor and we scale pretty well with AD.

The same thing is happening with Magic resistance items, making it very inefficient to build too much MR/Armor for Yorick specifically, for tanks such as Ornn or Malphite or Rammus where their passives and kit's increase the armor or allow for more stacking it wouldn't be bad, but for Yorick, it's much more valuable to stack health and ad than stacking resistances past 150-190.


Another example, the big difference is you have a lot more ad, armor pen and because of the Death's dance and GA, the build is arguably safer than the tank build in lots of scenarios. and for building 240 more armor we are only getting 15% physical damage reduction.

Just so you can compare and see how much % physical damage reduction you are getting from the armor, you can always go to practice tool in-game and try any items or builds and see the amount of physical damage reduction or Magic damage reduction you gain from magic resistance at certain amounts of MR or Armor.

Trinity Force or Tri-Force or Tri is a very strong item for dueling and split pushing it gives you mobility which Yorick needs.

It gives 20% cooldown reduction which Yorick needs.

It gives the Rage passive which gives movement speed up on killing a minion or enemy champion which helps Yorick close the distance on enemy champions who are about to escape or don't want to fight Yorick.

It gives health and mana which Yorick can make good use of.

It gives Attack speed which helps Yorick dueling people and killing objectives
It also gives a stronger version of the sheen proc that is on sheen which really helps with sieging towers and dueling enemies Overall this is the best item for Yorick.

Youmuus ghost blade is a really strong item as Lethality applies to ghouls and gives them more burst damage, when you are ahead it's a really strong item but I wouldn't get it as the first item, preferably have either 1 or 2 items before you decide to build it
It helps because it gives you a lot of damage and mobility which you can use to run someone down or escape the active gives you movement speed too.

Cleaver or Black Cleaver previously named The Black Cleaver is a strong item on Yorick. It gives 40 ad which Yorick can make great use of it gives 400 health which is also really good on Yorick it gives 20% cooldown reduction which is also really nice because it allows you to use your abilities more often.

Just as with Triforce, the rage passive allows you to chase an enemy that would otherwise have run out to safety or just too far away from you to be able to close the distance.

But then there is still the unique passive from the black cleaver where dealing physical damage to someone if you have Cleaver reduces an enemy's armor for 4% that stacks up 6 times to 24% and will last for 6 seconds is something your ghouls benefit from as it gives your ghouls more damage because your enemies have less armor and your ghouls do ad damage.

it's also really good for when you have to team fight the only issue with this item is that it's not as good as trinity force but if you go transcendence secondary you can use them together and gain even more AD from cooldown reduction

Yes, you saw it correctly sanguine is a very strong dueling item for Yorick the lethality gives ghouls damage and allows them to kill minions or towers quicker just as ad gives them damage.

The reason sanguine is good is because it gives you a lot of attack speed, ad sustain, and lethality it makes for a great split pushing item on top of triforce it's nice but it also works if you get yourself a cleaver it's far cheaper than death's dance it gives you more reliable sustain and a good amount of attack speed in 1v1 scenarios.

If you look to siege a tower the attack speed will give you the edge over your opponent in sieging towers.

I would say Triforce sanguine is better than if you do it with Sanguine cleaver, but sanguine cleaver is cheaper so you could give it a try and see what suits you best.

Sunfire Cape is a really good item for wave clear armor and it gives you health too
it deals 26-43 magic damage per second when an enemy is within 325 range, so standing on top of them to deal more damage is a great strategy if you can do so safely
60 armor and 425 health is a good amount of armor and health if you count in the wave clear it provides and it only costs 2750, this is one of my favorite items
Because it provides Health armor and waveclear plus if you have maiden the immolate damage it does to minions can spawn ghouls the same thing applies to camps if the maiden is within the range

Sterak's gage or Steraks as people most often call it is very good on Yorick because it gives you a good amount of health which Yorick can make great use of but on top of that it also gives you 50% of your base ad as ad which is going to be anywhere from 50-70 when you buy it which is because Yorick has great base stats because he is a juggernaut and so he can really benefit from this item.

But outside of those 2 things, there is something more it gives its the lifeline passive and when you start taking lots of damage it will be procced and gives you a giant shield that is based on 75% of your bonus health.

Or to put it more simply, any health that is not your base health, so from runes items or other buffs on top of 30% tenacity so that enemies their cc doesn't last as long and you will have more time to decide because instead of dying you get the shield which allows you to fight for longer or disengage when needed

The thing that makes Death's dance good is the 15% healing synergizes with Conqueror, it synergizes with spirit visage but not only that, 50AD is a decent amount of ad not necessarily for that cost, but you get 30 mr and 30 armor and 10% CDR so it's very good against mixed damage or comps with both ap and ad damage dealers and on top of that 30% of all damage is taken as a bleed effect over 3 seconds so if you end up healing within that time you have more chance to surviving when you take a lot of damage making this a great item to include into your builds

Spirit Visage is a magic resistance item that gives you cooldown reduction health magic resistance and base health regeneration and then the unique passive which increases all healing draining and regeneration on you by 30%, the item synergizes very well with your Q on Yorick as Yorick Q heals you based on your level when below 50% health it heals you for twice the amount, which will also get increased by the unique passive from spirit visage making this a very strong magic resistance item to get on yorick

Adaptive helm gives 350 health 55 magic resistance 10% cooldown reduction and 100% base health regeneration
While Yorick does not benefit from the 100% base health regeneration all that much just as with the cooldown reduction it is helpful but not a necessity
Adaptive helm has a unique passive that reduces magic damage taken from the same spell or ability by 20% multiple spells or abilities are stacked simultaneously.

So for example:
a Teemo mushroom and a Cassiopeia E with low cooldown will both stack it in time to help with the next Cassiopeia E or Teemo mushroom, at the same time it is helpful against any damage over time abilities such as Heimerdinger turrets
as long as they deal AP damage it will be good into them, when enemies don't have Damage over Time or DOT it is better to get either spirit visage or Wit's end overall this is a really good item.

Abyssal Mask is very good if you have 1-2 fed ap champions on your team Yorick also has ap damage himself, the item increases ap damage taken by enemies within 325 range gives 10% cdr (Max cdr is good on Yorick)
350 health which is not the most possible amount but it's decent, the same amount of mr as spirit visage or adaptive helm and 300 mana Which you don't need.

Personally one of my favorite 5-6th item choices it applies grievous wounds which you can also get from sitting on Executioner's calling until you have 4-5 items including boots finished, but it gives 25% armor pen which applies on the ghouls their damage too, it gives 45 AD which is decent but the thing that makes it so strong is that it counteracts healing whilst giving you a lot of armor pen which is very good with damage focussed builds on Yorick If enemy comp doesn't have any healing feel free to get Lord Dominik's Regards Aka LDR instead.

DMP is a good armor item for split pushing the item gives 425 health and 60 armor but besides that also has the passive dreadnought which gives you stacks if you move which gives you up to 60 more movement speed and decays while immobilized (Note that Yorick is pretty immobile being a raid boss/juggernaut) which makes the MS very helpful in escaping or getting towards a wave/tower or rotating quicker but on top of that you also get crushing blow which deals bonus magic damage on hit up to 100 if you gained 100 stacks with dreadnoughts but also slows enemies by 50% for 1 second (Pretty helpful in chasing someone but doesn't work for ranged champions)

Guardian Angel is with 40 ad and 40 armor, not the strongest item but what makes it good is the unique passive where you go into stasis for 4 seconds meaning that you can't be attacked and won't take any damage for those 4 seconds after which you respawn with half your base health and 30% of your maximum mana which means that something like a Yi, Irelia, Tryndamere, Jax or any other champion that relies on auto-attacks to do damage and needs to life steal to be able to kill you under your tower have 4 seconds in which they can't attack you and you respawn with some of your health and mana, making it difficult for them to dive you if they are fed.

Blade of the ruined king is only advised if you go Lethal tempo and build cleaver first, It's really good against tanks the reason why it's good with lethal tempo only is that Lethal tempo gives you a lot of attack speed, more than 1-3 items could give you, it gives 40ad 25% attack speed 12% life steal 12% target's current health bonus Phys damage on hit which applies on the auto attacks you get from lethal tempo the item active slow is nice too because it allows you to stay in melee range for longer.

Ice born gauntlet is more of a meme item it's not very gold efficient and some items are better for when you would want to take ice born, a close competitor is frozen heart it gives you slightly less mana but it gives you more armor on top of that ice born does not give you any health.


Unlike items like Deadman's plate or randuin's making it very difficult for ice born to compete on top of that, unlike trinity force ice born does not give you any attack speed, ur better off buying any other armor item even if you go transcendence the cdr doesn't give you enough ad for ice born to be gold efficient on its own.

Start Doran's shield and potion rush Ninja Tabi and then build Triforce and then it depends on the scenario, are you:
Ahead by 2/0 or more? Get Youmuus.
Behind? Get an armor item.
Do they build life steal? Get Executioner's calling.
Their ap jungeler is fed too? Sit on Aegis of the legion.
Did they finish a full infinity edge? Get Randuins or GA.
Are you even? Get Steraks gage or cleaver.

Playstyle: Passive, let them shove you in constantly if they poke you most poke will be negated with Ninja tabi Second wind and Doran's shield.

Every time you have 4 graves poke them and if they fall below 50% health and the ability they need to be mobile or close distance is on cooldown, For example, Vayne's tumble or Lucian's E if you at that point have 4 ghouls or ult Cage them up with W hit your E, use your Q as an auto-reset and you should have a kill.

If ur looking for something slightly different this is also a very strong build going with transcendence to convert over capped cdr into ad, transcendence is good the other rune is gathering storm for damage.

The idea behind this build is starting Triforce and then building into Cleaver the reason you would want to do that is its 2 great damage health items that are both really good on Yorick and you get the armor reduction passive from cleaver and you get the stronger sheen proc.

Because you go transcendence you over cap cooldown reduction into ad damage so you can then build for example spirit visage frozen heart which gives 110 armor maw of malmortius, or even ghost blade and all the cooldown reduction will be giving you ad so you could build very tanky but then do a lot of damage while being very efficient at spending the gold.

It is a perfectly viable or even strong build that some people don't try out, but if you decide to give it a try its not bad.

Swap out Gathering storm for nullifying orb if ur up against a lot of ap champions or ur enemy laner is ap do the same with the armor runes, there is little point taking them against ap champions.

Phase rush allows you to beat Nasus because he will struggle to stay in melee range of you, the advised build against nasus is:

The reason you want tear is: it gives you A lot of damage once you finish Manamune, very easy to stack on the way to lane by pressing Q / using W Q and E at fount before walking to lane or on the way, Normally Starting tear would get you camped by the enemy JG or killed in lane but because you run Phase Rush you can E auto Q and avoid most ganks or engages and do good damage, as long as you wait for phase rush to be up to do short trades you should be able to avoid every single gank and nasus should struggle to stay in melee range thus can't damage you.

Good against difficult lanes, you want to just itemize tri force + death's dance and then have the option to either get more cooldown reduction items that give you health and AD or armor + health if you need armor, or Mr + health if you need Mr.
The downside to this strategy is spellbook takes time to get used to but once you get used to it you know how to use it generally so on multiple champions that could also take spellbook you would know how to use it on them as well.

Spellbook can be run against counters such as Renekton/Irelia/Tryndamere/Jax but should not be taken against skill matchups and is not good against all counters, it is advised to first learn the match up without spellbook to the best of your ability.

(This is because spellbook is not very friendly to newer players and difficult to make good use of especially for anyone below plat 2.)

And only get spellbook when you can't play it otherwise and it's generally agreed upon by most Yorick mains above platinum that this matchup is difficult.

Alright, so this chapter will be about releasing the maiden (For platinum or above primarily useful there and not needed under plat I don't think) Which isn't always worth it but it deserves a separate section as it's definitely something you should learn or invest time into learning how to do as it can be game-changing, making a loss into a win or trading that baron nashor for a bot lane inhibitor or a few bot lane towers, or trading that elder for potentially their nexus towers and top inhibitor + tower or even trade the elder drake for a won game.

If you are lucky with your maiden release and stop the enemies basing it can be very rewarding to know when to release her into a side lane.



So, there are 3 good indicators that you should consider releasing the maiden in either top or bot,
1: Nashor is spawning in 50-60 seconds enemies are ahead or have a comp with a lot of attack speed or damage here you release her bot because it's the furthest away from the objective that the teams are going to fight around or for.

2: Drake is spawning in 50-60 seconds here you want to have the maiden be released in toplane.

3: All enemies are grouped as 5.

There are a few rules when releasing the maiden

Rule 1: There must be a cannon wave because the cannon takes tower aggro over the ghouls and maiden.

Rule 2: You are sure nobody is going to stop her and kill her or all enemies are gathered together

Rule 3: You can survive a fight without her and win it or at least safely get your team out of danger.

Rule 4: You know that you can live through whatever is going to come towards you within 1 minute time at least
(Very important because when you die maiden dies too)

Rule 5: You aren't full tank and have at least 2 items that give you ad (Ghouls need AD to siege the tower if you don't have enough it's not really worthy to lose the maiden)

Rule 6: You are absolutely sure that you get more out of releasing her than having her with you for an upcoming fight.

*It is advised to learn this when you are at least platinum 4 or higher with an above 50% winrate.