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Yorick Rework Concept

Krizalid··54 votes·8,468 views

Hi everyone! I'm really terrible at descriptions, so if you don't mind I'll just put those few sentences from Deviantart here. Maybe it's not really the right time to post now, because this won't have that much attention, hehe, but whatever. I really love Yorick Mori - you don't hear these words too often, do you? Yep, I'm a rare lol-player who actually likes him as a character. It's really taking a while for him to get his full Sion-level rework and I thought that I could give it a shot myself. I pushed his design towards the new Shadow Isles champions/reworks, made him look like an old weared gravedigger who's spending the eternity by simply digging and not letting the dead to climb out without his permission. He's not hunching that much and his proportions are still disrupted a bit, to give him that undead look. I hope you'll like it! http://orig14.deviantart.net/b6dc/f/2015/198/5/2/yorick_rework___league_of_legends_by_krizalidbrando-d91nksm.png

50 Comments

Nyá15 votes

I really like Yorick too, sad he got dropped off the radar.

I really like him because hes from the shadow isles but hes not really evil and dosnt really have some sort of malicious intent, he has a creepy vibe to him but it dosnt seem like he wants to murder you, I thnk hes unique.

macromite1 votes

but yorick will totally still murder you, his whole point is he wants to bury people. even if the might still be alive.

Nareik Yukiboshi1 votes

actually the reason he was burying people was familty tradition...the reason to be in the league is to restore the family honor...and in the league you kill people for fame...or something along those lines...

junglerboy163 votes

The best part about him is definitely that he pulls of the "creepy/pitiful+sympathetic" dichotomy pretty effectively. He's a scary guy (what sort of giant undead grave digger wouldn't be?) but he's also a very sympathetic character; he just wants to be remembered, he just wants to have simple things like family honor, he just works the normal shift. He almost mirrors the struggle humans face in everyday life, we all want to be unique and remembered for the things we've done, but in the end, most of us are just stuck working our 9 to 5 job, or going to school, or being retired and realizing that you didn't actually achieve what you set out to do in life. York Mori is possibly the most human, relatable character in all of League.

BlackSunNocturne1 votes

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The best part about him is definitely that he pulls of the "creepy/pitiful+sympathetic" dichotomy pretty effectively. He's a scary guy (what sort of giant undead grave digger wouldn't be?) but he's also a very sympathetic character; he just wants to be remembered, he just wants to have simple things like family honor, he just works the normal shift. He almost mirrors the struggle humans face in everyday life, we all want to be unique and remembered for the things we've done, but in the end, most of us are just stuck working our 9 to 5 job, or going to school, or being retired and realizing that you didn't actually achieve what you set out to do in life. York Mori is possibly the most human, relatable character in all of League.

Damn. Just.... Damn. That's terrifyingly true once you stop to think about it. Alas, poor Yorick

Silents4291 votes

Riot- "Yeah that's what we intended" >.>

junglerboy161 votes

I don't really care if they did or didn't intend it, but Yorick is a masterfully saddening character either way.

Krizalid1 votes

In my headcanon, the reason why Yorick didn't leave a heritage is because his wife has died (I named her Claudia). I don't know, I just like it that way. And this band (like, almost every their song) became pretty much his soundtrack. http://i.imgur.com/86wBBxx.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgaAwxZCdUM

Silents4299 votes

I actually prefer if he had the slow undead hunchback look still.

Rew7111 votes

chicks dig the hump

AbrahamBaconham1 votes

Hump is pretty iconic on him.

junglerboy161 votes

yeah, he's the only hunchback in the game, and to be honest, a hunchback simply makes sense for someone who's whole life/afterlife is dedicated to bending over to dig graves.

Rito Jericho7 votes

That looks way better than the current Yorick in my opinion.

Krizalid2 votes

Thank you, I appreciate it!

TerraRising5 votes

As a fellow Yorick fan, I do like this as an alternative skin concept. However, I'm not sold on this as a new classic skin. It's too much like the WWE's Undertaker gimmick.

Really good job, though. I wish I had 1% of the skills you have.

Krizalid2 votes

Thank you very much!

Puri Puri Taric4 votes

where is his hunchback ? gg now he is just a lich gravedigger.

Brutusness4 votes

If he looks anything like this when his rework finally drops I'll be buying him first day.

Roleax4 votes

OOOOOOO I like it! well done sir and or madam.

Krizalid2 votes

Thank you! It's sir :)

Serevas4 votes

I very much like this depiction, I think it would make for an exceptional reworked appearance.

Gallowgrim4 votes

I really like this. Lose the hop and hunchback notion...

Calibretto93 votes

Nope. I really, really hate this concept. It has nothing of the original Yorick and to be honest very little flavor. It's a dude in a trench coat. Just looks like the Undertaker.

wunaway2 votes

Nice! Rito pls!

Krizalid2 votes

Oi, wait, you're here as well? Nice to see you and thanks! XD

wunaway2 votes

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Oi, wait, you're here as well? Nice to see you and thanks! XD

Hmmmmmmm.... I know you? :D

Krizalid2 votes

Cut it out, girl :3

CasterGilgamesh2 votes

if only this was Yorick i really hated his hump

ArchVixxen2 votes

Did you draw this? It's well done and I like the style of it, wish I could draw like that lol I haven't had the chance to play Yorick yet but he's on my list to play. ^^

Summonerrr 12 votes

This looks way better than the current hunchback of summoner's rift Character model for Yorick

Fasmodey2 votes

We don't want humped zombie please, it's like 80s style zombie. Even a shit on his head would look better instead of that.

Good job for not using hump.

Very Epic Guy2 votes

I love every detail! It just looks so cool and well done.

Elder Meme2 votes

To make more people please with this it could be a slight hunch that you can see but not like the current Yorick. But I do like this version of Yorick seems more disturbing.

Solaxo2 votes

No. You completely changed his shape. Don't "karma" him

Fasmodey3 votes

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No. You completely changed his shape. Don't "karma" him

he needs to be completely changed.

Luckypukkie1232 votes

JUST DO IT

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvDf9Kyp_DI/VXq0pwy4O8I/AAAAAAAAL3M/YmPcc2wzgUo/s640/shia-labeouf-just-do-it-green-background.gif

Colonel Lapoose2 votes

lol I love Yorick too. He apparently is my most played champion XD I would love this update!

FrostiFlami1 votes

I'm fine with his looks, don't want anything to be changed about it.

I just want the new kit, skins, and VU for ghouls, I want the ghouls to look different from one another.

2Become dust1 votes

You could make him more like "mundo" body shape so he has a League of legends like style to him

He looks amazing but it does not look like something that would fit LoL

2Behold1 votes

As someone who recently got bent over by a Yorik i have gained a new appriceation for this champ. I like what you did with the design i feel like a bit more hunch may be in order though considering he is always digging graves but thats just me. Needless to say awesome design though.

Nareik Yukiboshi1 votes

i like it, it's really interesting...but i'd like to see him keep atleast a slight hunch...not like he does now...but bending over and digging will cause some back problems

LoL Ergo Urgot1 votes

Where's the hunched back?

Finn Teh Human1 votes

Bump

Doctor Dyment1 votes

I'm not sure about this specific look for a reworked Yorick, but that is on the right track. He needs to look... better than he does in game. Classier, a bit old timey to top it off. He has been dead for quite a while, so that should also factor into what he looks like, and the condition of his clothing. He also seems a bit too... well built? In this drawing? He should be a bit malnourished, as he is dead. You know what I'm sayin'? His clothes should also have some tears in it, to signify that idea that he has been dead for longer than most of the current champions have been alive. But I do like the drawing itself.

Lionl1 votes

I think yorick needs a completely New kit. Have the ghoul thing still here but something better. Unless he's fed he ain't gunna do shit in teamfights other than bait the enemy out. I'm not much of a yorick player so don't take my opinion too seriously, but still.

Hatless Casual1 votes

Reminds me of the Hatbox ghost in the Haunted mansion at Disneyland, not too bad for it.

KaminoX1 votes

well if karth can look good after a VU so can Yorick

Shadowkirby141 votes

You know who would be good enough to voice Yorick? Tobin Bell aka Jigsaw from Saw. Imagine him with that rusty voice and you got a creepy champion.

I want Riot to make Yorick the only benevolent Shadow Isles resident. Given by his soon-to-be-outdated lore, he was a grave digger throughout his life and died without an heir to carry on his family's legacy. Now he's risen to dig up the graves to harness a vast army of undead.

Here's what I can picture:

  1. Yorick never wanted to be resurrected. He just wants to rest and join with the rest of his family in the afterlife.
  2. He was forced to dig up the graves he buried. He never liked the idea of raising the army of death.
  3. Yorick would probably hate most of the Shadow Isles champions: Mordekaiser because he a big douchebag, Hecarim because he supports what Mordekaiser's doing, Thresh for torturing the poor souls, and Elise for luring innocent people to be sacrificed to her so-called "spider god." Although he has "some" respect for Karthus, but doesn't approve his method in just killing the living to embrace death. He only met Kalista once and only warned her where her path of vengeance would take. If Evelynn stays as a Shadow Isles champion, she might be the only one that's considered a "friend" for Yorick, despite acknowledging her as a nuisance. He knows Illaoi doesn't like him because he's undead, he wouldn't blame her. Even Yorick doesn't like being undead. He knows about Kindred and wishes for a quick and painless death from them if they ever meet.
  4. Every Harrowing, he would sneak souls of the dying into his lantern as a safe haven. In return, the souls give his lantern light, enough to give Yorick a glimmer of hope. The souls sometimes emerge from the lantern to aid him, even fight for him because of his noble deed.

I like your picture, especially when you didn't make him a hunchback. I've wondered if he might have some kind of skeletal deformity in one of his legs, causing him to limp every time he walks. He could have broken his leg some time during his life and never truly healed.

This is just my headcanon, though.

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