How to win lane as Ambessa against Yorick · 47.81% win rate over 343 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yorick | His Q (Last Rites) heal and ghoul generation contest the first wave while you are one-ability and energy-gated — give CS, do not brawl into the swarm. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Your Q-cone burst trade is online but his Q sustain and ghoul soak even it out — trade only when his ghoul count is low and his E is down. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | You have your dash-weave combo, but his ghouls and Q heal answer your chip while his E-mark slow punishes overstays, so neither commits cleanly yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yorick | Your cooldowns are longest at 4-5 and Maiden is arriving — he out-zones you with E-marks and ghoul pressure, so farm safe and wait for 6. |
| Level 6 | Ambessa | Public Execution blinks behind his swarm, suppresses and stuns, and your R heal eats the ghoul DPS — your one guaranteed all-in past his W wall. |
| First item | Ambessa | Eclipse plus Q max means Q1-auto-Q2 halves him while your armor-pen and ability-heal carry the trade through his ghoul chip. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Maiden, four ghouls and W walls let him out-trade and splitpush you off the side lane — his scaling and your physical-only damage hand him the late game. |
His Q (Last Rites) heal and steady ghoul generation let him contest the first waves while you are one-ability and energy-gated, so concede a little CS rather than walking into the swarm. Once you have Q-into-Sundering-Slam and a Drakehound's Step empowered auto, you can dash-weave a short burst trade — but the moment he lands E (Mourning Mist), you are slowed and marked, and his ghouls plus Maiden pile onto you. Only commit when his ghoul count is low and his E is on cooldown.
The full Ambessa 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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