Weird Pick #124
Yorick Mid Strategy Guide - Weird Picks #124
October 2019
Below is a guide on how to play Yorick Mid. We'll talk about how to play him, the rune set up, the item build, how Yorick Mid works, the drawbacks of Yorick Mid and how to counter it.
Here's a pick that's unorthodox, but quite good against a number of champions and performs surprisingly well for destroying turrets and maintaining map control for his team. He's tough to kill and can't be left alone for very long. If you're not used to seeing him (as most mid-laners aren't), he also deals an insane amount of burst damage that can catch players by surprise.
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Guide to Playing Yorick Mid
Below is a guide on how to play Yorick Mid. We'll talk about how to play him, the rune set up, the item build, how Yorick Mid works, the drawbacks of Yorick Mid and how to counter it.Here's a pick that's unorthodox, but quite good against a number of champions and performs surprisingly well for destroying turrets and maintaining map control for his team. He's tough to kill and can't be left alone for very long. If you're not used to seeing him (as most mid-laners aren't), he also deals an insane amount of burst damage that can catch players by surprise.
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Yorick Mid Table of Contents:
- How to Play Yorick Mid
- Yorick Mid Rune Setup
- How Yorick Mid Works
- Potential Pitfalls of Yorick Mid
- Countering Yorick Mid
How to Play
- Abilities
- Q, E, W then prioritize R > Q > E > W
- Summoner Spells
- Flash + Teleport
- Starting Items
- Refillable Potion
- Core Items
Trinity Force 
Sterak's Gage 
Spirit Visage 
Mercury's Treads 
Guardian Angel 
Thornmail
Rune Setup
How It Works
Powerful Tower Destruction Ability
Yorick's ability to decimate towers is exceedingly high, especially once he hits level six. When you combine this with the Demolish rune you get a champion that can't be left alone for more than a few seconds at time unless you like losing turrets.
Insane Sustain
Yorick's built-in sustain combined with a blue buff donation mid-lane means forcing him out is essentially impossible. When you add this to his bulk this makes him an immovable force that can't be bullied. Eventually the enemy mid will have to go back to base and eventually that tower will rapidly fall.
Good Against Melee Assassins
Yorick's damage mostly relies on his auto-attack reset. This means that sneaky champions like Zed and Fizz won't be able to dodge the majority of his damage. This allows him to bully enemies into submission simply through dealing more damage and shrugging off any poke he receives.
Yorick's ability to decimate towers is exceedingly high, especially once he hits level six. When you combine this with the Demolish rune you get a champion that can't be left alone for more than a few seconds at time unless you like losing turrets.
Insane Sustain
Yorick's built-in sustain combined with a blue buff donation mid-lane means forcing him out is essentially impossible. When you add this to his bulk this makes him an immovable force that can't be bullied. Eventually the enemy mid will have to go back to base and eventually that tower will rapidly fall.
Good Against Melee Assassins
Yorick's damage mostly relies on his auto-attack reset. This means that sneaky champions like Zed and Fizz won't be able to dodge the majority of his damage. This allows him to bully enemies into submission simply through dealing more damage and shrugging off any poke he receives.
Potential Pitfalls
Weak Gap Closer
Yorick's kit needs room to run in order to truly run down targets. Although he can do this to enemy junglers in the river, most ranged champions can safely avoid dying to Yorick in lane. They can get heavily bullied and sent home, but actually dying is somewhat unlikely.
Weak Poke Damage
Using Yorick in the mid lane takes away the main source of poke damage on your team. While most teams can still work without poke, they'll want to make up for it in other lanes in order to alleviate this weakness.
Yorick's kit needs room to run in order to truly run down targets. Although he can do this to enemy junglers in the river, most ranged champions can safely avoid dying to Yorick in lane. They can get heavily bullied and sent home, but actually dying is somewhat unlikely.
Weak Poke Damage
Using Yorick in the mid lane takes away the main source of poke damage on your team. While most teams can still work without poke, they'll want to make up for it in other lanes in order to alleviate this weakness.
Countering Yorick Mid
Countering Yorick Mid generally entails a champion that can both run through his defenses and also provide stronger team presence late game such as Pantheon. Meanwhile, players will generally want to avoid champions that run low on mana quickly as Yorick will likely be packing Refillable Potion for sustain.
Conclusions
Yorick Mid is a pick that can do incredibly well against a variety of champions and can cause some incredible chaos in a game simply by being an unignorable force. If you get ahead you'll also get a lot of "what the heck just hit me" when you smack them in the face with your empowered Q.
Suggested Tier: Tier 2
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