Yorick Followup?
It's been a while since the Yorick rework. Is anyone at Riot still looking after him? If so, what are your thoughts on where he is now?
Based on the statistics that I have read on fan sites, he only has one role (top) and his play rate is rather low, trailing off to 0.3%-0.4% recently (sometimes as low as 0.1%) according to Lolking. He's listed as 0.8% to 1% pick rate overall, but his play rate seems to have consistently dwindled since the hype of the rework. He had around 1-1.5% pick rate 2 years ago, when he was generally considered forgotten, based on old stats I can dig up. His winrate is really unstable due to the tiny sample size, so some sites show him with decent winrates but most seem to show him as below average (but not absolutely horrible).
He also still hasn't received any new skins, presumably because his low popularity makes him a poor candidate when considering the return on investment for potential skin sales. He is the oldest champion in the game to have only 3 skins. This might also be because creating reskins for his minions would require additional work compared to most champion skins.
I used to play a lot of Yorick, maining him for about a year and a half (still my highest mastery champion by far), but I have essentially abandoned him since the rework. I personally really, really miss the utility and flexibility of his old ultimate revenant + pseudo-revive... I have suggestions for what type of changes could bring back some of Yorick's old player-base if anyone is interested. I personally think he needs more strategic flexibility and more than one viable role. I'd like to see his jungling (he was played in LCS as jungle) work again as well as his old support off-role (it was never meta but it used to be more viable).
It would be nice to have a casual discussion about Yorick just to bounce ideas back and forth between the developers and community. Even if the resources aren't currently available to make follow-up changes to Yorick, it would still be nice to at least know that someone at Riot is looking after this champion and his playerbase.