[25.24] Yorick Mid Guide

Overview

Build

About me

Hi I'm EpicGiraffeParty. I'm a Diamond 3 Yorick mid main. I've been playing League since Beta, and started maining Yorick around Season 7. I have been consistently hitting Diamond since Season 4, but I mostly play Arena these days so not as much solo queue. Some of my matchup knowledge might be a bit dated but the core gameplay elements still hold.

Why play Yorick Mid?

Your goal is to just pressure objectives early because Yorick is really strong at contesting objectives early game. So mid lane keeps you near all the objectives (dragons + grubs). And also Yorick is good into immobile mages because of your cage. If you land cage you can pretty much guarantee you win the trade or have kill pressure.

Yorick

Abilities

Passive: Shepherd of Souls

Yorick's passive is what makes him so unique. Yorick spawns a grave for every enemy killed with Last Rites Last Rites or for every enemy champion, monster, or 8th-2nd (based on level) minion that dies near him. These graves can be used to spawn up to 4 Mist Walkers (ghouls), which are essentially pet minions that attack enemies.

Q: Last Rites

Empowers next auto to deal bonus damage, have slightly increased range, and heals Yorick based on missing health. Also resets his auto. Yorick's main trading/damage ability. Max first. Important to use to last hit to spawn graves in lane.

W: Dark Procession

Summon a cage that blocks enemy pathing but not allies. Depending on where it spawns, it can slightly knock enemy champions away or pull them in the cage. Enemies can destroy it by autoing the wall.

E: Mourning Mist

Yorick throws black mist (700 range), attracting ghouls if it lands on enemy champion/monster. Deals percent health magic damage on hit and slows enemy. Hit enemies are cursed, reducing their armor, and continuously spawning ghouls (up to 4). Ghouls and the Maiden gain movement speed towards cursed enemies, and ghouls will leap to cursed enemies. Yorick's main poke tool, and deals a lot of damage with ghouls, hitting this usually wins you the trade.

R: Eulogy of the Isles

Yorick summons the Maiden of the Mist, and more ghouls. Maiden follows Yorick around, attacking enemies. Attacks against enemy champions apply a mark, and Yorick's attacks consume the mark dealing extra percent health magic damage. Yorick can recast to set the Maiden free, allowing her to push the nearest lane until she dies. Maiden is quite tanky and regens health.

Gameplay

Early Game

Easy matchups are ones with no dashes cause you can kill em if they walk up. But most just sit there clear waves while you go mess with their jungle or the dragon/grubs. Use ghouls to help with early drags (they can tank a lot of hits for jungler), and then head back to lane (if no threat) for efficiency (E the drag and walk away). And then later you leave and never return.

Mid Game

SPLIT PUSH. You should have core items now Trinity Force Trinity Force and Serylda's Grudge Serylda's so you should win sidelane against majority of your mid lane matchups. Push in waves and after getting tier 1 turrets you can use your ghouls to farm enemy jungle camps efficiently while sidelaning.

Late Game

SPLIT PUSH. Group for important objectives, unless you see an angle for threatening nexus. Late game people often underestimate Yorick damage. You can often draw 1v2's splitting and trade kill or even win. And full build your E and Q do a lot of damage, if you trap a mage/carry with your cage, you can often E flash auto Q and one shot them.

Tips and Tricks

Monsters struggle with killing ghouls. Hence you can use them to remotely farm jungle camps and help with dragon takes. Mid to late game you can just throw Mourning Mist E on a camp and walk back to clear minions. You can often build a pretty sizable cs lead and starve enemy jungler when splitting.

You can use your Maiden to split push in a lane alone, typically away from major objective (Baron). Sometimes enemy team may not notice/forget about it, and Maiden can build up a wave and push to inhib turrets or even nexus turrets creating win conditions.