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What happened to Yorick?

Sleipnir of Hel·11/22/2018, 1:35:40 AM·2 votes·1,781 views

I have been away from the game since the end of season 3. Picked up plat in that season, and the season before it. I did this playing Yorick pretty much exclusively, and just about nothing else. I love the guy, or...I did love him. I played again for the first time since then. I tried the new Yorick rework and...

Seriously, what the hell happened? This is nothing like the old Yorick I played. Nothing. There isn't a single aspect of him that functions the same. I feel like he has been nerfed in every imaginable way. He feels a million times weaker, and a mere shell of his former self. Why? Why on earth is he changed so drastically?

Suffice to say I've uninstalled the client after trying to play the new Yorick a few times. I could go over all of the changes and why they are nerfs, like how Yorick no longer has any steroids or movement speed buffs, anymore, but all you need to know is: Yorick can no longer summon ghouls on demand at the press of a single button. And that is tragic.

You may not remember Yorick Mori, but I do. And League of Legends may as well not exist without him as far as I am concerned.

12 Comments

Sauronkaiser11/25/2018, 8:22:04 PM3 votes

Honestly there was literally nothing to save from the original Yorick. He was the worst champion in the game´s history from the designer point of view. They clearly had total freedom to erase him and create from 0. While this can be looked as negative by some people, in this case it was more than justificated. And the result was worth as hell imo.

DNFVixen11/22/2018, 4:09:31 AM2 votes

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I have been away from the game since the end of season 3. Picked up plat in that season, and the season before it. I did this playing Yorick pretty much exclusively, and just about nothing else. I love the guy, or...I did love him. I played again for the first time since then. I tried the new Yorick rework and...

Seriously, what the hell happened? This is nothing like the old Yorick I played. Nothing. There isn't a single aspect of him that functions the same. I feel like he has been nerfed in every imaginable way. He feels a million times weaker, and a mere shell of his former self. Why? Why on earth is he changed so drastically?

Suffice to say I've uninstalled the client after trying to play the new Yorick a few times. I could go over all of the changes and why they are nerfs, like how Yorick no longer has any steroids or movement speed buffs, anymore, but all you need to know is: Yorick can no longer summon ghouls on demand at the press of a single button. And that is tragic.

You may not remember Yorick Mori, but I do. And League of Legends may as well not exist without him as far as I am concerned.

Riot has done a lot of things to make people uninstall, this game is a shell of it's former self and all we have is this abomination of a game that is nowhere near as fun as it used to be. It has lost a lot of players and it's revenue is down 21% in a year.

y0r1ck11/22/2018, 4:48:28 AM2 votes

He does have a speed buff if he lands his e.

Wind Whistler11/22/2018, 11:32:21 PM1 votes

He's gone dude. That's what happened to him. He's just completely gone. I can't think of a single champion who was treated worse than Yorick. At least Sion is still fun to play, and even fun to play against. At least Poppy kept most of her kit. At least Galio kept parts of his kit, too, but Yorick? He kept absolutely nothing. He plays nothing like Yorick, he looks nothing like Yorick, sounds nothing like Yorick, and most importantly? He's not even any fucking fun to play, and even less fun to play against. Yorick used to be an uncommon sight in my games, but now? He's as rare as Old Sion was.

Having played a lot of both Yorick and Galio myself, I can only imagine how devastating it was for you to come back, only to find the champion that you played the most had been completely removed, and replaced with an empty, hollow husk.

Maybe one day, when/if enough people band together, we can see Yorick again, and Galio, and all the other champions that Riot has been removing from their game over the years, or at the least, we can see them get real, PROPER reworks.

Soulpiercing42011/27/2018, 2:14:28 PM1 votes

I stopped playing because they stole my runes. But to be fair I tried the new yorick and the old. The Nerfed one of course. You played him when young and freshed. Well they nerfed out of existence then when no one could play with him anymore they remade him. I tried the remake over and over. I saw some people do real good sometimes but only when very over fed.. You must be able to one hit without being one hit to do good with the new yorick. So go full power run around trying to feel like the best and get one shot. That is all this game is about anymore is getting 1 shot or 1 shooting the other guy. And what champion takes the biggest hit from this? My favorite two that is who. Teemo and Voli Bear #1. There is no way to tank voli. The best you can do now is crit hit voli and one hit people before they one hit you.