How to win lane as Akshan against Yorick · 46.67% win rate over 30 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yorick | Yorick out-trades you at level 1 — his Q Last Rites with base juggernaut stats and early graves beats your lone passive shot before your poke fully comes online. |
| Level 2 | Akshan | Your passive double-shot and Q Avengerang chip a gap-closeless Yorick for free, and with no dash he can't close the range to punish you. |
| Level 3 | Akshan | The E Heroic Swing you get at 3 adds poke and an escape over the ghouls, opening your trade window against a Yorick who can't catch you. |
| Levels 4-5 | Akshan | At 4-5 your Q poke plus Heroic Swing kite the ghoul swarm and out-range a Yorick with no gap-closer to reach you. |
| Level 6 | Akshan | R Comeuppance executes a poked Yorick because it scales with his missing health, and a champion takedown refunds your E — you just have to bait his E slow first. |
| First item | Yorick | Maiden plus his first juggernaut item and a full ghoul swarm out-grind your lethality burst and reclaim the lane from you. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | He hard-scales: Maiden, full ghouls, and the W ring-wall trap zone you off the wave and out-split you — group and avoid the side-lane duel. |
Yorick concedes the range early — he has no gap-closer, so your Q Avengerang and passive double-shot chip him for free while he tries to last-hit and stack graves for ghouls. The catch is his E Mourning Mist: it slows you hard and marks you for the ghouls to chase, and if it lands while you're committed he pulls you onto Maiden and the swarm. Poke from max Q range, cancel the second passive shot for the move speed when you need to disengage, and never sit in his E while you're mid-swing.
The full Akshan vs Yorick report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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