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Choose Champion Build:
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General Laning
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Vs extremely hard ad matchups
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Vs extremely hard ap Matchups
Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order
Shepherd of Souls (PASSIVE)
Yorick Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Darius
Dodge.
Introduction
Runes






- CD reduction Blues: Helps get more Qs in for graves.
- AD marks and quints: Lets you deal more damage with autos and last hit.
- 1% crit rune: When you take this rune you essentially gamble off 1 ad for a chance to potentially instantly win a trade. However, Do not expect or try to crit the enemy.
- Scaling Health Yellows: helps because you won't be getting tanky until about 2-3 items, Yorick also has an amazing base Armor value.
- Armor Quints: Helps you survive your terrible laning Phase.


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Cunning tree is pretty useless so we go into the Fortitude mastery line. I won't be going through these masteries because its pretty obvious why I chose them.

Lets assume this Yorick player is fairly good at csing. He gets 85% of the minions that come his way. At 10 Minutes, he will have 3523 gold, which is enough to purchase a Black Cleaver. This leaves 423 gold, lets just say he uses it to purchase boots. Also, he will be lvl 9, since 18 minon waves have spawned. This means he will have 1380 HP, 102 AD, 66 Armor (Not including Masteries & Runes). Add Black Cleaver stats in + Masteries/Runes (scaling armor) and you have 1680 HP and 152 AD and 79 AR. Lets compare this with some common top laners, Illaoi and Darius.
Lets do the same calculations with Darius, with Darius purchasing a Black Cleaver as well. Darius has 151 AD, 75 AR and 1682 HP.
How About Illaoi? She will have 155 AD, 69 AR and 1646 HP.
Pure Stats aren't everything, though, lets have a comparison between them all and see who can proc 6 Stacks the fastest. I tested all 3 champions out, and Darius takes about 6 seconds, Illaoi about 6 as well.
Yorick's testing time was significantly harder to do consistently, due to positioning, hp, and atk speed of ghouls, so this may not be accurate. Your ghouls take about 0.5~2 seconds to lock on and jump to a marked target. Lets take the AVG of that (1 second) and assume that is the time it takes for your ghouls to come out. Lets also assume you have 3 ghouls out. Each ghoul at lvl 9 has an attack speed of 0.86. Yorick has 0.71 attack speed at level 9.
With all this in mind lets calculate how long it takes to stack BC. This "simulation" are assuming that E has been cast, 3 Ghouls are out, Yorick has BC and Boots, Yorick is level 9, and he is in AA range of his enemy. The numbers on the side represent the order of which these actions take place. Actions with the same # are simultaneous
1). Simulation Begins at 0s
2). Ghouls Leap takes 1s
3). Yorick starts attacking at 1s (timestamp)
3). Ghoul starts attacking at 1s
4). Damage from ghoul is applied at 2.14s (3 STACKS APPLIED, 3 STACKS TOTAL) (TOOK 1.14 SECONDS FOR ONE ATTACK)
4). Ghouls starts attacking again at 2.14s
5). Damage from Yorick is applied at 2.42s (1 STACK APPLIED, 4 STACKS TOTAL) (TOOK 1.42 SECONDS FOR ONE ATTACK)
6). Damage From ghouls is applied at 3.24s (3 STACKS APPLIED, 6 STACKS TOTAL) (TOOK 1.14 SECONDS FOR ONE ATTACK)
Sorry if it's a bit confusing, but basically, under ideal conditions it will take 3.24s to apply all BC stacks.



Last Rites is your primary source of damage. Try to never overextend to get that last grave in for Awakening.
Dark Procession is a great anti gank and CC tool. IF USED CORRECTLY. It's effectiveness is directed correlated to it's placement. In this visual below, I will show where and why you would place.
Sorry for the ****ty paint job, but the reason why you would place
Dark Procession in front of them instead of behind them is because they would essentially have to get through two walls instead of one.
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