LoL Champion Build Guides: Yorick

Yorick The Shepherd of Lost Souls

Find the best Yorick build guides for League of Legends S12 Patch 12.1. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Yorick build for the S12 meta. Learn more about Yorick's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Yorick Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Yorick we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Yorick, as determined by LeagueSpy's calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Yorick this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 12.1. However, if you are a new Yorick player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Yorick!

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Patch 12.2: 27594 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

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Win Rate 61 Games

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Win Rate 90 Games

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Yorick Counters

Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Yorick guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!

This counter data is for Yorick Top in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Yorick. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

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Yorick Skins

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Find Yorick's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Yorick skins and chromas on Yorick's skins page.

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Pentakill III: Lost Chapter Yorick

September 9, 2021

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1350

Resistance Yorick

November 12, 2020

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1350

Meowrick

March 27, 2019

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1350

Arclight Yorick

October 4, 2017

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1350

Undertaker Yorick

June 22, 2011

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520

Pentakill Yorick

June 22, 2011

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Classic Yorick

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Yorick's Abilities

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Shepherd of Souls Yorick's Passive

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Yorick raises a grave for every enemy champion, large monster and 12th / 6th / 2nd non-champion enemies that dies near him (depending on level), as well as for every enemy he kills with Last Rites. Only 4 graves can exist at the same time, with the furthest ones being replaced by the newest. Large monsters that die near Yorick always leave a grave.

Yorick can use Awakening to raise a Mist Walker from a grave. Mist Walkers has 100-185 (+15% maximum health) in health (depending on level) and deals 2-88 (+0.25 of attack damage) in damage to its target (depending on level).

There can only exist 4 Mist Walkers at the same time, with the closest ones being replaced by the newest.

Last Rites Yorick's Q Ability

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7 / 6.25 / 5.5 / 4.75 / 4

Active: Yorick's next basic attack within 6 seconds deals 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+ 0.4 per attack damage) bonus physical damage and heals him for 12 - 82 (based on level) (doubled to 24 - 164 (based on level) if he is below 50% maximum health) as well as spawning a Grave if Last Rites kills the target.

If there are at least 3 Graves nearby, Yorick can cast Awakening within Last Rites' cooldown.

Last Rites resets Yorick's autoattack timer.

Active - Awakening: Yorick raises a Mist Walker from each nearby Grave.

Dark Procession Yorick's W Ability

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20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12

Active: Yorick summons a circular wall of spirits around the target area after a brief delay, forming impassible terrain for the next 4 seconds. Allies can walk through the barrier without impediment.

Dark Procession can be targeted by enemy basic attacks and takes 1 damage per attack, dissolving after taking 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 4 damage.

Mourning Mist Yorick's E Ability

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Yorick hurls a globule of Black Mist that splashes across an off-centered area at the target location, dealing 15% of target's current health magic damage to all enemies within the area, down to a minimum threshold of 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+70% of ability power).

Enemy champions and monsters hit by the Black Mist are slowed by 30% for 2 seconds, and are marked for 4 seconds, during which they take 40% bonus damage from 8 attacks by Mist Walkers and continuously raise a Mist Walker from each nearby grave, up to a maximum of 4. Yorick, Mist Walkers and the The Maiden gain 20% bonus movement speed when moving towards nearby marked enemies. Marked champions are also revealed.

Mist Walkers will leap to enemy champions and large monsters cursed by the mark, dealing 100% of their AD upon arrival.

Eulogy of the Isles Yorick's Ultimate (R) Ability

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Active: Yorick summons the Maiden of the Mist, along with 2 / 3 / 4 Mist Walkers.

The Maiden of the Mist has 300 / 1000 / 3000 (+70% maximum health) in Health and can both move and attack on her own, dealing 0 / 10 / 40 (+50% of Yorick's attack damage) magic damage every second to her target enemy and raising 2 / 3 / 4 Mist Walkers from nearby enemy deaths.

Yorick's basic attacks against the Maiden of the Mist's target deal 3 / 6 / 9% of target's maximum health in bonus magic damage. This cannot happen more than once every 2 seconds, and triggers against structures.

Yorick can reactivate Eulogy of the Isles to set the maiden free, causing her to push the nearest lane until she dies.

Questions About Yorick

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WHY IS RIOT GOING TO NERF YORICK

Asked by lessamatesu on August 28, 2018

I DONT KWON IF YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS BUT LIKE ZOE MY BOI YORICK IS GOING TO SUFFER FROM A GREAT NERF, BUT WHY, ALMOST NO ONE PLAYS HIM Could SOMEONE ANSWER ME THAT

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Least played champions?

Asked by dudm on April 30, 2014

I have just been curios guys about why some champions are not played that much. I know that unpopular picks like swain, galio, mao'kai, and yorick are all strong picks in their respective fields. What I am trying to get to in this is why some...

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Coding pros and cons

Asked on December 2, 2013

[img=http://i.imgur.com/Oiq63zE.png] How do I code my pros and cons to stay side a side? It just looks stupid the way I do it. (look pic)

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Can't Find My Guide On Lists

Asked by Hogopogo on February 14, 2013

Err I just released a new guide a few days ago. I realized that I cannot find it on the Yorick Guide lists. I copy and pasted all of the words and it was over 5000 words so I'm not sure what happened. People can only see it if I give them the...

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Is Yorick strong (if he was before) anymore?

Asked by sirell on January 21, 2013

I recall in S2, [[Yorick]] was difficult to counter in lane, but then had a questionable mid-late-game impact. But now it seems like even his laning isn't that strong. What are your opinions of this?

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Iceborn Gauntlet or Trinity Force on Yorick?

Asked by Hogopogo on January 15, 2013

I was wondering which one was better. I've used both and they both work, but statistically, I would like to know which is optimal.

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Best solo top picks. Yorick?

Asked on December 25, 2012

I wanna hear ur opinion for good solotop laners. Im thinking about buying yorick. Tell me some good solotop champions wich u recommend.

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