How to win lane as Akshan against Yorick · 47.08% win rate (1,149 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Swing circles around the brawler — three-hit trades on every CS and an E angle for every engage he tries.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). The cage traps you with the ghoul swarm — sidestep or break it instantly.
Read from Akshan's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Akshan's own plan; across 1,149 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yorick | You edge level 1 on range alone — Last Rites (Q) heals him off a 6s auto-attack reset, but he has to walk into Avengerang range to use it on you at all. |
| 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, a juggernaut item and full ghouls out-grind you — and Last Rites heals every 4s at rank 5, so bring Grievous Wounds. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | He hard-scales: Maiden and full ghouls out-grind you and Dark Procession zones the wave — group and avoid the side-lane duel entirely. |
Yorick concedes the range early — he has no gap-closer, so your Q Avengerang and passive double-shot chip him for free while he stacks graves for ghouls. Two catches. Mourning Mist (E, 700 range, 12s) does more than slow: it SHREDS your armour and marks you for the ghouls to chase. And Last Rites (Q) heals him off a 6s auto-attack reset, so his wind-up is your cue to step off, not the ghouls. Poke from max Q range, cancel the second passive shot for move speed when you disengage, and never sit in his E mid-swing.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Akshan's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Yorick, slightly — Akshan wins 47.08% of 1,149 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (52.92% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Akshan wins 47.08%), though it stays close.
Akshan takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Sorcery secondary (Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Blade + 1 Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Kraken Slayer / Hubris first, then The Collector, with Berserker's Greaves / Plated Steelcaps.
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