Did anyone else think "Yorick Rework?" when they first saw the Gravelord Azir art?

dunkeroni·Dec 2, 2015·1 votes·831 views

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Seriously. If they had started with a skin like this, a few alterations to Azir's kit could have made a nice rework for Yorick. Riot has tried and failed so many times to rebuild Yorick due to the difficulties of a champion defined only by "commanding an undead army" without making him too OP or mechanically intense (as described in one of Riot's podcasts not too long ago). Yet they have a champion that they created specifically to be an army commander, and now they have a graveyard skin for him.

I can only imagine that this will make it even tougher when they do try to rework him since they can't have him seem like this new Azir skin.

2 Comments

Void NargacugaDec 2, 20151 votes

Sadly... item 3070

I got to use Yorick for the first time due to One for All. Best part: I SOLOED BARON! XD My teammates where the cheering squad... Of one. =P The others where splitting. The poor Annie team I felt sorry for them! I now own Yorick due to the fun experience I had using him from OfA. Glad I got him!

dunkeroniDec 2, 20151 votes

I love soloing Baron as Yorick. It's one of the reasons I picked up Yorick jungle last season (which worked much better before they changed the camp agro, because they will always target his ghosts, and now it resets them).

Yorick really is a lot of fun, but he doesn't have many complex mechanics to 'make plays', and since so many bursty tanks these days have mobility spells, true damage, etc, he just doesn't keep up in the late game as well.