@Riot Will Yorick ever be looked at?

A Miss Fortune·3/18/2015, 2:25:54 AM·2 votes·852 views

Yorick ** I love his playstyle, he's so unique and fun. But he has some issues I believe. I feel like he can be a really fun, balanced, viable pick that is versatile and can be interesting to build. But a few problems I immediately notice on him are**;

  • All of his primary abilities are ranged, but his auto attacks are slow and melee?
  • Extremely mana hungry if you try to do anything and has to buy mana items.
  • Immobile
  • Ghouls die only in a few seconds
  • His ultimate is a dumbed down Zilean ultimate and is Sion's PASSIVE except worse

A really neat idea I thought of.

Cassiopeia Yorick gains a passive sort of like Cassiopeia's. He steals the souls of enemy champions to increase his own ghoulish power. For every champion he kills he gets 1 stack, for every assist he gets 0.5 or half a stack. At 10 stacks Yorick's ghouls live 1 second longer, at 20 stacks they live 2 seconds longer, and at 30 stacks they live 3.5 seconds longer as the max. This could let Yorick become a strong carry, being able to literally command an army of undead. Though this wouldn't be broken in anyway as Yorick would have to acquire kills and become fed. On top of this he would probably have to build a fair amount of Cooldown Reduction. Yorick when he's fed can't really carry and I would love to see Yorick commanding like 5 - 10 ghouls all at once and becoming a real threat to the game if he does become fed.

Zilean Yorick could also have his ultimate reworked, not to become a replicated Zilean ultimate on a gravedigger, but the ultimate lasts 15/25/30 seconds. When the target revives from dying they have a burst of movement speed, maybe like 60% of their base movement speed for 2 seconds. This way the person can catch up to their target before they escape which I find being difficult on Yorick, and while the ultimate is active on the person who has died they gain +20/40/60 Attack Damage and +20/40/60 Ability Power. Someone could use this to finish off a target, including their own base AP/AD in this instead of decreasing it. This shouldn't be changed into a Zilean ultimate, but it should be used to get revenge on someone who defeated you. At the moment while you die, your enemy can easily escape and you also have less effectiveness than you do while alive.

Yorick These are just some ideas, I hope Yorick is taken a look at. It would be amazing to see him improved to better fit into the current Season. I think where he is with damage and his overall playstyle is great. His damage is nice and oddly bursty but also can be used over time, he has good sustain, and can become a tank. Easily one of the most fun champions in the game.

Would be nice to hear anyone else's ideas too.

4 Comments

q O y O p3/18/2015, 2:30:17 AM1 votes

These ideas just sound like you're wanting him to be more OP than he already is.

He crushes his lane in most cases. He can be played in multiple positions as well.

The only thing that sucks is he NEEDS mana, a lot of it, however, this is the balance.

Drackolus3/18/2015, 5:02:56 AM1 votes

There was a rework floating around, it looked really really cool. Don't remember what happened to it...