did yorick get buffed?

JarodDempsey·Feb 6, 2018·1 votes·279 views

so ive seen yorick 3 matches in a row now and hes doing nasus level damage except he only needs to buy trinity force which he can get by like 10-15 minutes. Literally i just fought a yorick that did 80% of my fed adc's hp in 1 hit at ~11min and his only damage item was trinity force. His final build had no AD aside from the 25 from trinity force and he built straight tank. Between and he was doing at least 400 damage through like 80 armor with his other items being , i mean yeah we could cc him but he built straight tank so he survives 3v1 at least long enough to kill 1 or 2 even with a fed vayne on my team.

Maybe this isnt new and i just unluckily faced a yorick 3 times in a row and he happened to be doing crazily high damage with only 1 item to enemies that were ahead of him or something idk but it seems a bit op to me that he builds straight tank and yet can delete people more quickly than nasus.

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Prozac HorsemanFeb 6, 20181 votes

Ok, so first off, that's normal, he's a juggernaut, juggernauts hurt alot, whilst being raid bosses, to compensate for their terrible lack of mobility, utility and CC, Garen's Q also scales very well with AD, second of all, if I remember correctly, Trinity force's passive, Spellblade, makes it so that your next basic attack after casting an ability does 200% of your base AD as bonus damage, but here's the kick: Sterak's Gage gives you +50% basic Attack Damage. That's the reason Yorick only needs Sterak's and Triforce: Triforce gives him power, and Sterak's Gage amplifies Triforce's power, these items synergize very well.

But that's not all, Yorick's Q isn't just damage, it's BONUS damage on his next basic attack, so he does the damage of 1 Auto-attack + 30/55/80/105/130 (+40% of his total AD), that is huge considering that this is all pure NOT damage, but BONUS damage, add to that Deadman's Plate, which amplifies damage on the next Auto-Attack when at full stacks, and also the fact that his Q heals him... Yeah, counterplay: Yorick is a juggernaut, work as a team so that he does not approach your carries, if you have no champion in your team that can stop something as slow as a juggernaut, then your teamcomp is bad anyways.

JarodDempseyFeb 7, 20181 votes

The main issue here is that even without steraks he was doing more than half my adcs hp when he was 2/1 and she was 5/2 and he had trinity and speed boots. Yorick + trinity+steraks is overtuned because he literally builds 1 damage item(trinity) and can go 5 tank items (including steraks which further gives him damage. Juggernauts should be slow to kill and maybe take down one enemy with them but being able to build pure tank and do so much burst basically makes him unkillable vs <4 champs unless you have at least to reliable sources to stop him attacking.

TLDR: he should at least have to build one teir 3 damage item (in addition to trinity) to be doing more than half hp of an enemy thats ahead of him, trinity synergizes too well with him (exascerbated by steraks) his q buff might need nerfing.