I see him regularly in ranked, but I'm only silver ii. I frequently will pick him if nasus is banned. Pickin Yorick into Nasus is like asking for nasus to have a farm lane. Also, if enemy top is picked, I pick Yorick (if it's not nasus). It's funny, how he counters everything... except the top that most people counter... Nasus. He doesn't counter nasus at all. You pick Yorick, enemy picks Nasus; just dodge, okay?
All he does is Q your wraiths. You go back for CDR and mana/manaregen to spam more at him? Well now he has CDR and just Q farms your wraiths and more minions... All the while, your harass is pushing, so you can't really stop him. The best thing you can do is freeze the lane.
But yeah, I play yorick.
And no, he doesn't suck after laning. Just build right. Get your Manamune, a visage to compliment your regeneration abilities, a Frozen to counter adcs, another AD defense item, like MoM or Merc Scim,more health armor (randuins) Now ADCs hate you, and some Mercury Treads.