Support Yorick Guide:
Hey, guys. Just sharing a really fun and legitimately powerful strategy as support Yorick 
. I just started getting into ranked for this season (I am a mostly norms guy) and have been playing support Yorick every game with around a 70% winrate. I won 3 out of 4 of my ranked matches today with this build/strategy, even carrying a Caitlynn last game who disconnected at the start of laning and complained of 300 ms ping for the entire game.
Edit: I ended up playing a bunch of ranked yesterday and won 10 out of 12 games all as Yorick support. I don't normally do quite that well, but I got a little bit lucky and this is a legitimately strong strategy. I went up about almost 2 divisions last night.
Alright, so here's a rundown on Support Yorick, starting with item build.
Item Build - Core:
Recommended:
Rarely:
Example Completed Build:
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** Runes -** Quintessences: Flat AD or Flat Armor Marks: Flat AD or Flat Armor Seals: Health per level or Flat Armor Glyphs: 6x Scaling CDR (10% CDR at level 18) and 3x Scaling Magic Resistance
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Masteries - I am still experimenting with masteries. You definitely want Meditation and Bandit from the utility tree, but the rest is up to your own discretion.
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Pros/Tips -
- Ultimate allows you to clone (revenant) one of your carries for almost 75% more DPS
- Ultimate allows you to provide a 10 second temporary revive to a carry if they die while it is active
- Scales into a beefy frontline for your team (assassins/Leonas don't want to dive into melee [Omen of War] range)
- Omen of Famine (red ghoul) gives good self-sustain in laning
- Works well with
items
- Decent poke/trading during laning (primarily from Omen of Famine)
- Ghouls can tank monsters (helps with early dragons and leashing for your jungler)
- Can split push shockingly well (enemy team won't expect that from a support)
- Omen of Pestilence (green ghoul) can facecheck for your team to provide vision
- Ghouls can block some skill shots and can clear/detonate certain trap abilities (Omen of Pestilence is easiest to do this with)
- Omen of Pestilence's AOE slow can help peel/chase
- Many opponents have rarely faced Yorick and do not understand how to deal with him or what he does
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Cons/Warnings -
- He's Melee
- Has shortish ability ranges
- Rather item reliant for a support
- Mana hungry (until you finish
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- Very immobile (until you upgrade boots and build
- Has no hard CC
- Many allies have rarely played with Yorick and do not understand how to work with him or what he does (allies commonly run/afk during the temporary revive)
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Summary/Playstyle - Support Yorick works as a bouncer for your team, shoving his shovel down the throat of anyone who wants to get into close range of his carries. His strong front-line presence and temporary revive ultimate makes him thrive against diving assassins/fighters that are common in the current meta. Support Yorick feels like a combination of an extremely beefy
and a more flexible, stronger utility support
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Because Yorick depends heavily on mana early on but has excellent early sustain (as long as he is not out of mana), I personally get
as my start and then back early so that I can finish a
x3 start instead. In either case, make sure to bring the Meditation mastery from the utility tree or Yorick will go OOM constantly in the early game. Managing mana early on is a must for any Yorick (less of a problem in the jungle, but this isn't a JG Yorick guide).
You should be able to survive any lane matchup, though some matchups will be more challenging than others. If you do well, you will scale better than most supports and become a powerhouse of your own by mid/lategame. If you do badly, don't panic. Your ultimate can still make a major impact for your team if you use it effectively, since it scales with your team's carries rather than your own items. Strategy is important in League, but it's even more important when you are Yorick. Keep track of objectives, predict your opponents' movements, and you will be able mold the game by forcing the enemy team to split up with
As with all rare picks, dealing with your own teammates' bias can be difficult. Whether you are succeeding or failing in laning, you will likely receive trash talk from your teammates who hate meta breaking and have never heard of support Yorick. Explain to your allies what Yorick does, but don't get caught up in an argument with them. Just keep your head in the game, go even in laning, scale up for lategame, and use your ultimate correctly. Once your teammates realize that your revive just let your carry pick up a quadra kill, the whining will likely stop or at very least lessen. One thing to keep in mind is that even though you need early mana (
as a support. If you delay your
I hope you enjoyed the guide and learned something. I highly recommend trying Yorick support if you are looking for something amazingly fun and unique. A lot of people don't realize, but Yorick is an extremely flexible champion, functioning well in top, jungle, and support. If you enjoy juggernaut playstyles but prefer to offer team utility rather than having selfish power, then Yorick is absolutely perfect for you.
If you don't know much about Yorick and don't succeed immediately him, then don't fret. Yorick is a strategically complex champion with a very high learning curve (check out his steep win rate % by number of games played listed at http://champion.gg/champion/Yorick), so don't expect to do well with him right away. If you stick with him, his kit will start to make sense to you, and you will probably turn into a diehard Yorick main before you realize it. Lol![slayer-jinx-wink]
If you decide to give Yorick a try, make sure to come back to this thread and let me know how it worked for you. I love to hear about others experiences with Yorick and it would make me happy to see other players succeeding with his support role.
