New Yorick

So my take on yorick is that he is definitely in a weak spot. I was excited to pick him up but after ~20 games, he just doesn't feel like he has a place or niche.

Split push: He can spawn minions to help split push...but they're one hit and dead under turret usually they don't even reach the turret. Maiden of the Mist is also targeted first by the tower and basically does about the same damage as a cannon minion. and it has an uber long cooldown. So unless you are left alone top lane, which doesn't happen unless the enemy team is bad or loosing incredibly already, you really aren't much of a split pusher. You have real escapes; your minions die so easily that a support could hold a tower from you. I'm just not seeing the split pusher juggernaut fantasy here.

Dueling: Decent lane dueling. not quite able to best a nasus, but i like the Q for 4 minions, W, then E combo that sends minions flying to your opponent. I do feel like E does negative damage, even maxed. I haven't gone AP yet, but honestly everything else in his kit is AD so that would be rather dumb. But it's supposed to do 15% current health and it really does...nothing. I've never felt satisfied by the damage level of this ability.

Team fighting:

Pretty weak. You are easy to peel, and while you can burn a few flashes with W, that's really all you can do. maybe peel the adc with it. I've found it hard to get 3 graves when team fighting; it's the same issue as face of the mountain: everyone nukes the wave and you don't get any stacks. once every 12 minions dead is not enough to offset this. Maiden of the mist is...meh for team fights. maybe in a 2v2 she helps, but otherwise she's kinda just.. there. And the ghoul commanding fantasy is definitely not there because...no ghouls. they are literally worthless in team fights and might as well be a caster minion, if you can even scrounge up enough graves to summon them.

Minion AI: All the other team has to do is run into the jungle and then the maiden just moseys off into lane to hit a tower for minuscule damage 5 times and die. The AI doesn't seem to get team fights. or a team fight turned into a quick baron rush. The other thing that bugs me is how my minions will sometimes run with the lane minions and leave my leash distance and just...die. couldn't the AI be smart enough to send the minions back to me instead of killing them???????

I wanted to feel like I have an impact as yorick. But I'm really not feeling it. There are some cool 1v2 dueling moments early to mid game, but after that I just feel like a second rate meat shield.