Yorick: The most disappointing champion.

Xela Syab·Mar 12, 2015·7 votes·1,433 views

As a fan of Necromancers in games and lore I'm pretty disappointed in Yorick. His builds, his combat style, how his ghouls just die over a second, just everything in his kit seems wrong for a necromancer. When I think necromancer i think of a champion with mastery over undead creatures (ghouls, wraiths, vampires) and that there is pet synergy. When you play games like Diablo or Skyrim the necromancer has a skeleton buddy/buddies usually doing the tanking while they cast spells and Instead of going in and fighting with them and the skeletons being distracting cannon fodder. To me yorick is a disappointment because he just doesn't have the necromancer feel to him I feel like there should be more synergy between him and his ghouls and that they should be like the other pets in lol. I think this is why many people don't play him and find his playstyle unfun.

12 Comments

insaiyanbaccaMar 12, 20156 votes

just saying hes an undead gravedigger idk if you could call that a necromancer

KingsgraveMar 12, 20152 votes

Yeah but if they change him for the better people that liked his current playstyle will make threads about literally every day for 4 months just like they did with Cass.

SpongebobIsLifeMar 13, 20151 votes

with the very very very small playerbase he has? I doubt it.

BorbaradMar 13, 20152 votes

I am also a dedicated Necromancer, and I gotta say Skyrim is a horrible example, but that is not the topic here.

It saddens me Yorick is meant to be LoL's necromancer, as that means we won't get another one. He looks more like an ugly summon of a necromancer, so even his style is not worthy.

I disagree about a necromancer having to be fragile though . A summoner needs to have a healthy and steady condition, or he would just be a target, as you can not expect your mostly dumb summons to protect your hide. For that reason necromancer spell schools often have "tank spells" like a bone mail, life steal or strength-reducing debuffs.

It is still true though that a Necromancer operates more like an evil overlord sending his minions forward and stay in the back lines, as he is a lord to his undead, and a lord does just that. (Unless you play Mount&Blade, where they always charge in first). Forcing him to go in with a Shovel +5 including an empowered melee auto attack is just wrong.

The main aspect I dislike about Yorick is the fact that all of his abilities summon undead with a short life span. Undeads may be mostly weak, fragile, whatever, but if there is one advantage they have over everything else in a fantasy setting it is longevity. Undeads "live" until you break them, no exceptions. Riot reversed that and pretty much included the worst undeads ever in LoL. Also his ghouls are uninspiring. They missed the chance to include different kind of undeads.

A nice change, as someone here already pointed out, would be that Yorick kills minions and has the ability to resurrect them. Further instead of breaking down on their own they should die with a few auto attack hits, so they actually feel more like summons and not particle effects of a slow or lifesteal spell. Last but not least I would wish to be able to summon a bigger number of undeads.

Also I don't understand his ult. What is the revenant even supposed to be before the ulted target dies? The ghost/soul of his ally while he is still alive? Doesn't even make sense and is outside of Necromancy.

MaitlenaMar 16, 20151 votes

I agree that his ult is confusing and doesn't have much use other than the extra ghost, the possible revive, and basic attacks deal 5% more damage, but you could utilize it to engage the tower and tower dive before the wave of minions come or create a 1v2 into a 2v2 (most of the time it won't do much good). Other than that it is essentially useless unless you or someone else is about to die.

Cu SidheMar 12, 20151 votes

As a person who mains Necromancers in every game (I love Necromancers in D&D/Pathfinder) Yorick makes the worst Necromancer. I recommend Haunted Zyra for that. She even comes back from the dead for one final magic missile!

Edit: Message got cut off due to an error on my end. Fixed it.

Desmond LawMar 13, 20151 votes

Since they scrapped the league, minions could be actual creatures with spirits. Then Yorick gets spirit counters for every minion that dies and does something with that. You know, to work with the dying and coming back to life thing.

LetsgetcookingMar 13, 20151 votes

Yorick is meant to be the necromancer of the league, Morello said(can't find the quote for this), but right now? He's more of a hivemind, shooting mindless drones at an enemy. That's not commanding: that's just...throwing things and hoping they hit.

Summoning pets and having them do everything by themselves is not fun for the one against this massive army of endless poke and death. I don't know how they could change him to give us a necromancer feeling while still being fun to play against. I know he'll be fun to play as, but Kalista is also super fun to play...not to fight.

Azir is more of a necromancer than Yorick. Now now, i know what you're thinking: "He's not commanding undeads!" It's about a gameplay perspective i'm talking about here: he summons soldiers and is completely dependant on them to win fights. He's also very squishy by himself, like any necromancer should be. Azir necromancer skin for Harroween please.

Back to Yorick. Yorick can summons pets that do his dirty work...except not. They're just an addition. Maybe the slow ghoul is more required than the others, but c'mon: augmented basic attack(q) and pointandclick lifesteal(e). His R is an inverted Mordekaiser(or maybe it's Mordekaiser who's got a reverse Yorick ult, idk when they came out) that's probably the only fun thing to be a necromancer about in this kit. It's just: you have an augmented attack! Bonus, it summons a little thing!

I cannot come up with ideas right now, i'm exhausted mentaly after a hard night making homeworks. item 3070

Cu SidheMar 13, 20151 votes

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Yorick is meant to be the necromancer of the league, Morello said(can't find the quote for this), but right now? He's more of a hivemind, shooting mindless drones at an enemy. That's not commanding: that's just...throwing things and hoping they hit.

Summoning pets and having them do everything by themselves is not fun for the one against this massive army of endless poke and death. I don't know how they could change him to give us a necromancer feeling while still being fun to play against. I know he'll be fun to play as, but Kalista is also super fun to play...not to fight.

Azir is more of a necromancer than Yorick. Now now, i know what you're thinking: "He's not commanding undeads!" It's about a gameplay perspective i'm talking about here: he summons soldiers and is completely dependant on them to win fights. He's also very squishy by himself, like any necromancer should be. Azir necromancer skin for Harroween please.

Back to Yorick. Yorick can summons pets that do his dirty work...except not. They're just an addition. Maybe the slow ghoul is more required than the others, but c'mon: augmented basic attack(q) and pointandclick lifesteal(e). His R is an inverted Mordekaiser(or maybe it's Mordekaiser who's got a reverse Yorick ult, idk when they came out) that's probably the only fun thing to be a necromancer about in this kit. It's just: you have an augmented attack! Bonus, it summons a little thing!

I cannot come up with ideas right now, i'm exhausted mentaly after a hard night making homeworks.

They actually said they had a Necromancer Azir idea that they were going to do if not for the Galactic line existing. If they do that skin for him then Yorick will forever be replaced by the Necro Azir and Haunted Zyra XD

I love Necromancers but Yorick does not feel/play like one. I agree with you totally.

I like that he has lifesteal and can cast animate dead on a dead team mate.

I think Yorick should actually have Morde's ult >_> Though, Morde was released first. Life Steal and if you kill it you animate it. Best kind of Animate dead.

Cu SidheMar 13, 20151 votes

Also, there was a Yorick re-work happening but it got put on hold a year or so ago.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Emptylord/Yorick%27s_Rework

EconomiczMar 13, 20151 votes

Owners of the game hate him so they try to keep him in a non-existent state

Xela SyabMar 13, 20151 votes

They could make him more of a melee heimerdinger, where he summons a placeholder ghoul as his passive off the start that has 20-40-40% of yorick's bonus stats and he can revive a new ghoul after certain cd or minion kills, then he can cast a spell either skillshot like zyras or aoe click to augment the ghoul and deal damage (e shoots a bloody bone spike that makes it a vampiric ghoul that lifesteals/ spell recovers 10 mana on killing unit, w summons a plague pool makes a plague ghoul with aoe damage and slow/ spell can snare if champ stays on plague goo for 1.5 sec and slow, q shoots an ethereal portal that makes the ghoul ethereal with bonus movespeed and attack speed and non unit collision/ q creates spirit pathway that increases movement speed) every level with his r makes his ghoul stronger/ can be cast on allies or enemies to augment his ghoul to have 40% of their bonus stats. I feel like this would give him a better feel since he's more pet microing/augmenting like zyra with some spell casts instead of a udyr style combo brawler. However to give his ghoul balance it would have to be immune to summoner spells so junglers couldn't just smite it.