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Yorick, the Shepherd of his Team
Build Guide By kingGhidrah
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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Exhaust
Items
Core Build
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Damage Item
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Ability Order
Shepherd of Souls (PASSIVE)
Yorick Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
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Low
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Strong
Ideal
Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Fiora
Right now, Fiora is the queen of hyper carry. She is Yorick HARDEST counter. You will need a lot of practice to be able to lane well against her. Always try to use your w defensively as often as you can. If Fiora use her ult, use your ult to stop her from procing all the vitals, then spawn your ult. If she ever misses her q, that's your best window to engage.
Synergies
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
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Introduction
Much like his ghouls, the rest of Yorick's mechanics are deceptively simple, but have an extraordinary amount of depth. Yorick's w is an incredible form of cc that can alone force enemy flashes. If used expertly, it can even make or break teamfights by either peeling for your teammates or isolating specific enemies. In 1 v X, you can use your w to essentially snare an opponent for 4 WHOLE SECONDS, while you kite around them with your 175 attack range.
Meanwhile, Yorick's ultimate is STUPIDLY STRONG if you use it right. Summon it too early, and your lane opponent can just retreat and let the maiden run it down the lane. Summon it too late, as the ultimate has quite the delay, and the ultimate will have little impact in a fight. TIMING is the name of the game with Yorick's utlimate. You can also use the maiden to splitpush a lane and farm for you (little secret: you can also do the same thing with ghouls alone to cheese exp).
Pros / Cons
+ Ghoul + W mechanics allow him to outplay almost any champion
+ Strong split-push potential
- Does not scale nearly as effectively as other top laners for late game teamfights
- Can only carry games or be meaningful after the laning phase through good splipushing
Spells
Exhaust – Gives Yorick some much needed peel for the late game teamfights + extra kill pressure to get first tower faster. Definitely pick Exhaust against easy or bursty champions (eg. Teemo, Yasuo, Jayce, Warwick, etc).
Teleport – The typical pick for most top laners, I would pick it depending on how comfortable I feel about the matchup and whether I might need to get more cs (eg. Fiora, Olaf, Mundo).
Ghost – If you're just picking up Yorick and you're not comfortable using your w to escape ganks, then I would take ghost to give Yorick better escape when you are splitpushing.
The Early Cheese
This will be your main combo in lane. Once you learn your w, you can throw it into the combo only sometimes because of its huge mana cost and depending on the matchup (eg. camille, fiora).
However, sometimes, it is just better to hold to your graves, so can freeze the lane and still have huge threat potential over your opponent.
The EZ EXP
kingGhidrah
Yorick Guide
Yorick, the Shepherd of his Team
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