DON'T PLAY YORICK IN RANKED

Mira Arya Enthe··1 votes·701 views

He isn't hidden OP, he isn't good. Riot intentionally nerfed him into the ground so nobody would play him till the rework. I have lost 3 ranked matches and won 1 ranked match just because Yorick was in the game. ROFL stomped one on the enemy team and watched 3 get ROFL stomped on my team.

He ISN'T GOOD, this is intentional. Stop playing him in ranked, then blaming your team when you feed.

16 Comments

Akenero4 votes

Or maybe you just get shitty Yorick players on your team.

Mira Arya Enthe1 votes

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Or maybe you just get shitty Yorick players on your team.

No, he was quite clearly and intentionally nerfed into the ground by Riot. They have made it clear this is what they do when a champion desperately needs a rework, to prevent them from being played. I doubt all 4 different yorick players just happen to be bad players. The champion can lane bully some champions, but by mid/late game is utterly worthless number wise.

Slythion2 votes

I wasn't aware that Yorick was "nerfed" recently. You keep swinging around this "he was intentionally nerfed into the ground before his rework" but I don't actually think he was...

can you provide any evidence whatsoever?

Mira Arya Enthe1 votes

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I wasn't aware that Yorick was "nerfed" recently. You keep swinging around this "he was intentionally nerfed into the ground before his rework" but I don't actually think he was...

can you provide any evidence whatsoever?

Not recently, he was nerfed into the ground ages ago because his gameplay was too toxic... have you not kept up to date on why the champion is being reworked?

Slythion2 votes

you are one salty dude

EvilMerodach1 votes

Yorick isn't nerfed to the ground. He's just anti-fun for both Yorick and who he's laning against. But if you want to guarantee the enemy top doesn't get fed, and you know how to play Yorick, then he's a good pick against anyone. You just won't be that useful past laning phase. But if you want to trade a 1 for 1, (basically just make your lane opponite as useless as you), and you're not laning against Nasus, Yorick is always a good pick. This, again, is assuming you actually know how to play him.

So, like, lets say you know the enemy Riven is the highest ranked person on enemy team, and much higher ranked than you. Then pick Yorick, make her lane suck, make yourself suck, depend on team to carry you. But at least they won't have to deal with a fed smurf riven. And your team should overall have higher elo apart from the 1 you cancel out.

-#nextlevelstrats

Jinzo Torrance1 votes

Then pick Nunu Jungle and make their jungler sucks too

-#nextlevelstarts

EvilMerodach2 votes

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Then pick Nunu Jungle and make their jungler sucks too

-#nextlevelstarts

Possibly a good idea, but if mid/top are decent at their map awareness then you could just end up feeding. Top can get islanded off a lot more. Especially with Yorick because he can freeze lane so well and sustain the shit out of it. So he can nullify top and jungle if jungle camps top. Nunu jungle can trade jungle for jungle if mid or top aren't good at roaming out/warding jungle. So it's riskier, cause you can't just island off the jungle.

Iceember2 votes

Why stop there. Pick Karthus mid, Urgod ADC and Galio support. Make the entire map as useless as you are !

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

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Why stop there. Pick Karthus mid, Urgod ADC and Galio support. Make the entire map as useless as you are !

HEY! my Galio support is on point! ok? buddy!

Iceember1 votes

I know. But for lack of a better champion. Not to mention his ult is perfect in combination with nuns and Karthus ults.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

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I know. But for lack of a better champion. Not to mention his ult is perfect in combination with nuns and Karthus ults.

Amumu Galio ult is nice combo

EvilMerodach1 votes

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Why stop there. Pick Karthus mid, Urgod ADC and Galio support. Make the entire map as useless as you are !

Karthus mid useless, wat? Isn't he still fairly high pick in Korean pro play and <50% winrate there? Or am I behind the times? I mean he's kinda under-par for soloqueue/uncoordinated play, but when you get to the top of the top, I'm pretty sure he's still fairly beastly, in the right team comps.

Slythion1 votes

Yorick is actually pretty damn solid as a laner, he's just not good outside of lane.

Too many people hear "yorick is trash" and just go with it as though they actually know the champion, smh

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

play who ever you want in what ever game mode you want. there is no rule saying you cant play a certain champ in a certain game mode.

i urge the community to pick and play Yorick everytime they are in a game with Mira Arya Enthe (NA)

Ðelofasht1 votes

As a Yorick main with a 53% win rate with him, I just flatly disagree with you. My stats are about normal for any other juggernaut as well, at least for anyone in Plat and above, with more than a few hundred games on their champ. The biggest issue tends to be perception, I do not think of any champ as bad, I see an Aatrox and respect their potential as much as any other champion.

Problem is, people do not know how to play with a Yorick on their team, they often think he is a tank, but he has no CC, so that is not true. He is often considered gated by mana, but you never see anyone just run mana glyphs and the mana mastery. You hear he doesn't scale, but the opposite is actually true, he has a 1.2 AD scaling Q, ghouls auto 3 times in a life span for .35 AD (another 1.05 AD on every single skill potentially), his Ult scales on AD and his E is a 1.0 scaling AD. He may be the best scaling Juggernaut currently in the game, but only a handful of players build Cleaver (which is applied by his ghoul autos) and try for auto attacks during trades, everyone builds Tear when there is just better options for him. No, Yorick is not bad, never has been, but is limited by misconceptions and doubts.

The moment you look at champ select and think you have lost is the moment you already have, it is far better to figure out how to win instead.

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