New Yorick build?

General Esdeath ·Mar 2, 2016·1 votes·899 views

I have a Yorick build and I want people to try it because it works well for me.

Start and

Try to farm in lane for enough gold to upgrade these to a and

Rush a and then

After that upgrade to whatever boots you need and get a and from here buy a (I believe this works the same way Shaco's clone does when interacting with Yorick ult) it can proc the duskblade twice.

Final item can be anything tanky but I would go for or based on their team comp.

If you guys try this build out let me know how it goes :D

12 Comments

Sahn UzalMar 2, 20161 votes

You wanna upgrade item 3004 ASAP now, they changed it so it stacks much faster than just a tear. item 3124 So Yorick's not really about AA'ing a lot. He also doesn't have the tools to keep someone in melee range! Rageblade needs time to stack up, and they'll constantly fall off while you are chasing your target so you'll have to start stacking again. item 3146 could be pretty funny actually item 3147 I don't think Yoricks ghost applies it aswell, because Shaco's clone is treated like a champion by almost everything. This is so items don't screw his juking over :P However, for Yorick, this is not the case. Even if it does apply it twice, I do not know if it's worth it on him. He doesn't have the burst to make someone really low in 2 seconds and he also REALLY needs to be tanky, as the game carries on, he'll get kited a lot because he has no mobility and his only CC is a weak slow. (You shouldn't buy rageblade either for the same reason :P) -- If you want a fun cheesy build with a gunblade, I'd recommend you get something like this; - Rush this So unlike rageblade, this item does not need to stack up, you can also just hit someone with the inital attack. It should be a pretty good replacement :P / / Standard boots, pretty straight forward Well you'll heal of your Titanic hydra damage, and it should be just pretty fun, the active will also help you catch up to a guy, so I guess it's ok, This would be a more viable item to build though Some delicious tankyness and CDR, you could also get if you really wanted to :P More CDR, More tankyness and the healing passive to synergise with your E and Gunblade. is also a pretty solid item. -- On a Sidenote tho, You should build your rageblade build if you just wanna have fun and stuff, coming from someone who used to play Full AP udyr in normals :p But if you are gonna play Ranked, I would recommend you build something like the build I mentioned above. summoner 31

General Esdeath Mar 3, 20161 votes

W slows, keeping them in range, also dead man's helps keep up. I usually don't rush upgrading the tear until team fights.

Also I do this in normals, I love making fun and weird builds :D

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

Yorick gets 5% bonus damage on BASIC attacks from his passive for EACH ghoul (and revenant) up. So Rageblade does him well, but you will probably want to pair it with Atk Spd runes because he's one of the lowest base atk speed champs in the game.

Duskblade IS applied by his Revenant, it's treated just like Shaco's clone, and it can do a ton of damage out of nowhere because of it.

Also, one thing about Gunblade, the healing granted doesn't appear to count your ghoul damage (though it does count the Revenant from the Ult for some reason). So, try maybe a BoRK which pairs well with your build for added Atk Speed, the Lifesteal is handy and the added movespeed from it's active (along with more healing) makes for a very fun time.

Sahn UzalMar 3, 20161 votes

By taking attackspeed items on a champion with one of the lowest base AS'es in the game, you are making your item build EXTREMELY cost in-efficient. Also, the fact that his passive works the way it does does not mean Rageblade is good on him, sorry to burst your bubble.

Even if Duskblade is applied by his Revenant does not mean it is actually a good item on him. When you buy a Duskblade, you want the enemie to be atleast pretty low when it pops. Now you kinda NEED to AA as Yorick in a fight, so you can't save the passive. He just doesn't have the burst to make it work! Yorick is all about sustain damage, slowly but surely slapping a guy's health down while keeping his own health high. Duskblade is all about burst, other than the double apply, there is no synergy. summoner 31

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

You assume Yorick does not burst very hard, this is simply not true, he has very high AD ratios, his Q will hit like a truck with a Duskblade, and because you can cast half your kit from range you can have it doing even MORE damage because of the passive (Q is an auto modifer but still benefits from the ghouls being up, so 10% extra damage on Q just for using the rest of his kit). You are actually going to burst pretty hard and if you can manage to get 3 autos in that 2 second window with Rageblade and even half your kit of ghouls up you are going to have chunked the heck out of the opponent.

Also you may be assuming much about how Yorick's damage works. He CAN be an attrition champ, he can be a burst bruiser, he can build all sorts of ways and do things people never expect, but he's not the absolute best at any of these things. His versatility is both his greatest strength and biggest weakness. Believe in that burst damage though, especially with the proposed build. Also, realize who he's supposed to be targeting with a build like this, a squishy. I've easily 3 shot a squishy with just Q, E and an AA often, you aren't trying to kill tanks with a build like this, you are out to wait till the engage then rush their backline with your Ult on yourself so you can kill or disrupt the entire backline while doing a lot of AoE damage to their team. It does work, you'd have to try it first and think of what Yorick can do and not just how he's always being played by other people.

Sahn UzalMar 3, 20162 votes

O FFS. Let me give you an example. Maokai can do a decent amount of damage in a bursty way with his E W Q combo. But is that enough to make a rageblade work? FUCK NO. He won't even take you down to 75% health. Same goes for Yorick! A champion that bursts is a Zed, A Talon, A Rengar, A full AD Jarvan slapping his dick around as far as I care. These guys buy a rageblade. Yorick slowly derps his enemies down with constant DPS. NOT BURST.

You can build whatever the FUCK you want as long as you are not in my games, but don't go around telling people Rageblade and Duskblade are good items on Yorick Because they Are Just simply NOT! summoner 31

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't make it not true, and because I actually main Yorick and have tried all the builds I could I think up, I might just know a bit more than you about what he CAN do. It's possible to do a lot of burst damage, erasing people nearly completely in 2 or 3 abilities and one Auto (mind you ONE auto, which is all is needed to proc Duskblade).

So, disagree with me all you want, but you obviously don't know the champ as well as you THINK you do.

Sahn UzalMar 3, 20161 votes

I may not know Yorick as well as you do, especially mechanic and limitwise, but it seems pretty clear I know itemisation better than you. You are like those people saying Devourer Vi is OP. No. Build essence reaver all you want. But don't run telling people these kind of things are good on Yorick.

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

Experience over theory. Your theory of why it is bad lacks mathematical backing, and your lack of experimentation of it shows your disregard for empirical conclusion. Tell people how wrong someone else is until what they are doing becomes the norm, then be wrong yourself, or analyze it with an eye for why it might work versus why it would and make a case based off of some sort of actual data of ANY kind.

Furthermore I never said it is OP, but it could work, could in fact be gamebreaking in the right environment. Whether that environment exists now or will exist in the games you play who knows, but if you don't know when it is powerful you may never build it when that opportunity arises.

Some time back I said Zzrots portal was good, people told me I was wrong, now it is considered good. /shrug Believe what you will, but don't hold that belief so hard that you tell people they are wrong, they could just be ahead of the curve.

You could be right, I could be wrong, or maybe it is better than you think but limited in application. As I have said before, people tend to expect Yorick to be tanky, but sometimes it is better for him to just be a hobbling hammer of doom that obliterates squishies all day.

Lastly, mechanical prowess is very much connected to itemization, as if you don't know exactly how and when to utilize a champion to their fullest you often cannot get the best out of their itemization. Thus you may end up relying on itemization that doesn't require good mechanical skills. It can be tedious to orb walk on Yorick, but doing so well makes the build the creator of this thread suggests very powerful indeed.

KaxiMar 3, 20161 votes

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Just because you haven't seen it doesn't make it not true, and because I actually main Yorick and have tried all the builds I could I think up, I might just know a bit more than you about what he CAN do. It's possible to do a lot of burst damage, erasing people nearly completely in 2 or 3 abilities and one Auto (mind you ONE auto, which is all is needed to proc Duskblade).

So, disagree with me all you want, but you obviously don't know the champ as well as you THINK you do.

While I don't "main" Yorick, he's my go-to bully in the top lane when I just want want people to suffer. On a tanky build, no one can duel him, period. He's ridiculous with his nice Q pop and chasing abilities. Anyone without a ridiculous amount of escape might as well be dead if they get within range of that first W. Even with how useful his ult is for the ADC (or Ryze/Cassiopeia) in teamfights, he's far more useful as a split-pusher because nobody can deal with him. I personally enjoy the Muramana+Frozen Fist build since it gives sufficient damage and mana sustain (and now that Muramana stacks faster, it spikes earlier). I can see the Zz'Rot being good on him, but Dreadnaught, Visage, and Maw work wonders on him.

A full damage Yorick feels too much like paper; abuse his natural damage and sticking power to outlast opponents.

Then again, this could also be a playstyle preference since I love having a tanky champion.

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

It certainly is a playstyle difference, I enjoy him tanky somewhat, but I prefer to play him with my team as a mid line champion, to kill that Assassin that tries to jump on our ADC. For that, building burst simply can erase those kinds when they aren't focusing on you, as this midline champ if they don't have that Assassin you can just dive right behind the tank gets hits by the CC and hit their backline with your Ult on yourself, even if you die you come back up and just destroy the backline giving your APC and ADC time to erase everyone between you and them. I have to build differently quite often depending on the team though, as I primarily play in solo Q or with friends and have to be the tank from time to time. For solo queue it can often be right to build for split pushing, but watch out for Yi and Xin coming to stop you because they actually can outduel a fully built tanky Yorick pretty easily (they have so much free damage).

Full damage (or nearly full damage) Yorick builds rely heavily on their passive damage reduction from having ghouls up, if enemies can clear those quick AND do damage to him it's gonna put him in a bad spot, if he doesn't 2 or 3 shot them first. After thousands of games on Yorick between Ranked and normals learning to adapt comes a bit easier.

The build proposed in this thread I find very nice when your team is full of tanks, Cho Mid, Braum/Leona/Nautilus support, Amumu Jungle. . . he just slides past enemies and erases someone and can be surprisingly resilient gaining a lot of health from lifesteal alone.

ÐelofashtMar 3, 20161 votes

Manamune is meh, the damage pay off comes at late game leaving you vulnerable to early game issues, also spamming in lane provides VERY obvious windows of attack for any enemy player who knows how to lane against a Tear Yorick build (until you hit max CDR at which point you are in late game and no longer laning). Try turning the early Crytal into a Sheen for the proc or a Catalyst into a Righteous Glory later for both lane sustain and chase potential.

I'd suggest a Portal in the build at some point for split pushing as your wave clear with Rage Blade will be good.

Maw is a great addition to this kind of build too.

Also, I've run this before, and it can work really well, but most games you will find people expect Yorick to be the tank and not the carry so you will be at a disadvantage in not being able to get in there sometimes unless your team has a good initiate.

Also, be sure to actually run Boots of Swiftness as the main issue with a build like this is that people just kite a Yorick (because unlike Xin or Yi he doesn't have a gap closer).

Good luck and have fun!

Edit: Also, check my match history for Yorick and scroll down until you see Rageblade, I had more than a few games ranked with it, and the play can vary greatly but I was also less than skilled with the build as it's a different playstyle from what one normally does with Yorick. It will give you an idea of how it can work in low gold high silver ELO range, and it could have been during better times because there were a lot of feeders in bot and mid in those games if I recall properly.