I still don't understand Riots Balance Team's decision

Power Of Demacia·Oct 22, 2018·15 votes·8,109 views

I still literally have no idea why Riot Balance Team decided to NERF Yorick. In my opinion, he is so unplayable against any champions that getting unreasonable buffs (Darius, Fiora, or even Pyke). He is not that bad at all but he got some serious nerf previously. Like what in the world Riot think this is a good idea to do that? Even a support can out damage you in the early game. YIKES! As always, I'm still waiting and waiting when the day Yorick get some loves and attention from Riots or just let us control his ult.

18 Comments

CHEWYARMSOct 22, 20187 votes

It seems like riot wants yorick to be a scaling champ.

Unfortunately they forgot outside of 1v1 situations he doesn't really have the best late game. And even in 1v1 there are champs that have better early game and can beat him later. >>> Jax/ ireila

SirGankOct 23, 20182 votes

He's supposed to be the best split pusher, so outside of 1v1 he's not supposed to be anything great.

He still is the best at taking towers, but he can use better tools to play around other split pushers. So if you gotta stop him, you have to outplay him (which isn't what he gets now)

Neptunia xoxoOct 22, 20184 votes

Because Yorick was cancer to play against at the time? I don't like the balance team but the Yorick rework didn't make him any less cancer than his old kit.

AirKingNeoOct 22, 20185 votes

Cancer? Sub 50% winrate in diamond.

Neptunia xoxoOct 22, 20184 votes

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Cancer? Sub 50% winrate in diamond.

Win rate has nothing to do with how cancer a champion is. Good one, though.

AllkhOct 24, 20181 votes

Yorick is one of the characters with the most and longest counterplay windows in the game. If you find him cancer you better stop playing the game entirely.

Neptunia xoxoOct 24, 20181 votes

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Yorick is one of the characters with the most and longest counterplay windows in the game. If you find him cancer you better stop playing the game entirely.

No thanks lol

TheSingularityOct 23, 20182 votes

Personally I disagree. He has less effective range. Less instant burst, his ghouls are eaiser to kill and provide telegraphed power windows.

He is still stat checky which isn't great. But he's garbage at everything but splitting

Neptunia xoxoOct 23, 20182 votes

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Personally I disagree. He has less effective range. Less instant burst, his ghouls are eaiser to kill and provide telegraphed power windows.

He is still stat checky which isn't great. But he's garbage at everything but splitting

Ok and same can be said about old Yorick. Even if a champion is good or bad it doesn't change cancer.

Pika FoxOct 22, 20182 votes

They nerfed him because he was abusing lower ELOs too much.

nelogisOct 23, 20182 votes

Ah yeah but buffing Darius was fine, everyone knows that Darius is just unplayable in low elo right?

Pika FoxOct 23, 20181 votes

They didnt really buff darius in a way that lower elo can abuse

nelogisOct 23, 20181 votes

They gave him braindead damage buffs to W and E, if you think hitting W on an enemy is something only high elo players can pull off then I have to disappoint you.

Also if you think only high elo players can play with +5% Armor pen then I have another set of bad news for you.

Pika FoxOct 23, 20181 votes

Sure, its nice for them, but they dont get nearly as much use out of it. Lower elo doesnt really know proper trade rotations and all.

Captain1EyeOct 23, 20181 votes

I agree gutted him just like Azir

Off Meta EvanOct 23, 20181 votes

Idk about this. I'm a massive yorick fan and he's my juggernaut of choice and honestly he feels fine. I'm willing to bet the reason he got nerfed is because if his laning is too strong to be contested by other laners He'll take all of top lane due to his Q plus demolish. His level 6 all in with sheen is still fucking insane, his level 3 power spike lets him out damage other juggernauts like Darius and once he gets trinity he honestly doesnt even need ghouls to kill an AD 1v1 if the AD isn't ahead. The champ is fine. There are other picks that can certainly do his job safer but in terms of a 1v1 dueling split pusher, there are VERY few champs who can just outright out duel him when he has ult.

CHEWYARMSOct 23, 20181 votes

His laning was okay prenerf and is now complete trash.

The champ works properly till about high/ mid plat. Once you hit that wall even lanes you would easily win post nerf (aka Darius as you mentioned) become set under tower and farm lanes because yorick has no agency in lane anymore with out JG help due to such low damage early. So he's extremely easy to zone off minions and while yes his lvl 6 all in is good. It has 160 second CD and that's not enough to justify him automatically being 20 CS down every MU because yorick can't walk up to the wave with out being chunked.

Off Meta EvanOct 23, 20181 votes

I personally haven't had this issue. If your oppnent is under you can get a lot of kill pressure by stacking up 4 ghouls and waiting for them to go on caster minions. Obviously this strategy is situational but you SHOULD at bare minimum with landing Es with ghouls up, be able to punish them for CSing and poke them down. If you're bringing demolish you can get a few cheesey procs off if you're strong enough. Yeah your CD for ult is long But thats cause your 6 means that in a long term trade you will almost garenteed win. Your first item gives you 20% if you're building right and kindle gem is only 800G. I think he's weaknesses arent in laning but rather than he doesn't have the moblity to split as safely as other splitpushers