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Since reddit is otherwise occupied, can a Rioter please read my complaints about the Yorick rework?

hashinshin·8/24/2016, 2:33:20 AM·1 votes·1,055 views

When Riot reworked Sion it became clear that all the counterplay was in his opponent's hands. He could do very little to control the game other than hope his opponents didn't react properly to his combos/ults. As such, his winrate was tilted extremely hard towards low ELO. He was nerfed many times, became useless at high ELO, and was a dead rework to me.

Yorick seems to be going in the exact same direction. There doesn't seem to be any real gameplay in the kit. What does a bad Yorick do that a good Yorick doesn't do? What does a good Yorick do that a bad Yorick doesn't do? It seems the entire kit is about whacking things a lot, and hoping the golden math proves correct (Your Damage+Survivability > Their Damage+Survivability.)

Unless I'm wrong or I don't see anything here, it really seems to be a rather pointless rework. At the end of the day your only option when fighting Yorick is to hope your combined tankiness and damage beats theirs. There's really nothing you can avoid, there's little you can do to out play him. Ranged champions just kite, melee champions just melee. The wall doesn't even matter since melee champions will just continue to melee him. What does Jax or Irelia or Yasuo or Kled or darius or any of them do differently against Yorick? How is he different than fighting Xin Zhao or Garen who are reknown for their absolute lack of skill cap?

More over, how does this stop Yorick's oppressive laning phase? He either harasses you out of lane... or he doesn't and you win. His late game at BEST seems shit tier.

Even worse, doesn't it seem REALLY BAD RNG that graves spawn at random? So in the middle of a fight a couple minions die and I either get or do not get more ghouls based on RNG? Thresh's souls are different because they just stack up and don't impact individual fights.

7 Comments

Sona x Rubick8/24/2016, 11:15:12 PM3 votes

His graves are random? pretty sure it was every 12 units killed.

SoundChaosDebug8/24/2016, 2:42:41 AM1 votes

At first I thought you meant the marksman graves spawns I was like 'wut'

Stick In Mudd8/24/2016, 10:28:05 PM1 votes

I agree.

His new kit is so utterly basic. His CC makes no sense to HIS kit, but it can be useful for ganking, yet Yorick is a terrible jungler now, so it would only be used when his jungler comes to lane to gank.

They basically put all three abilities in his old kit, into his Q. It's ridiculous. It aa resets, dmg amplifier, life gain, and summons minions. The only thing it doesn't do is slow.

It seems to me they are making him for a very specific kind of player and playstyle; the splitpusher. He is now going to be god tier in that respect. But like you said, they will probably eventually nerf him into oblivion.

Oh well, he was never really played anyway, so it was pretty much a worthless rework (maybe).

I do see one advantage for Riot; his skins will be easier to make. So there is that.

TerraRising8/24/2016, 10:33:03 PM1 votes

Yeah, you hate the gameplay and I hate the aesthetics (art and lore). God damn, I wish they gave him another year to be worked and to another team.

Akali is SO HOT8/24/2016, 11:11:41 PM1 votes

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AsphodelNext8/24/2016, 11:17:33 PM1 votes

http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/LHJqRO3e-yorick-update-feedback-thread

This is the actual feedback thread for the Yorick rework on the PBE boards. Riot Solcrushed might not have read everything yet, but he did at least go down the thread two or three times responding.