So some mains are going to hate me for this, but...

Holy crap did yorick get buffed in this patch.

Seriously half of the reworked items and stats actually benefit the secondary mages more than the primary mages which got reworked. Yorick is no exception from this. He's a very solid body, which now has almost unlimited mana access thanks to his E and , which then builds into a very solid initiation tool . He gets even more healing from cata, and with combination of > he gets a solid amount of mana sustain, damage, health, all while building pretty core items.