How to win lane as Aurora against Yorick · 52.04% win rate over 98 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yorick has ghouls and a strong base kit at level 1 but no gap-close, and you're a one-spell mage with no W escape yet — neither side wins it, so set up the wave. |
| Level 2 | Aurora | With Q online you curse-and-pull for two hits while he can only shuffle up behind ghouls — your poke out-paces his sustain before Maiden exists. |
| Level 3 | Aurora | Q plus E chips him off CS and your W dodges his ghoul autos; he can't punish your spacing without burning his E mist walls. |
| Levels 4-5 | Aurora | Your poke, passive healing, and W cooldown all align — you control trades and zoning while he's still banking graves toward Maiden. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Between Worlds lets you walk through his E walls untargetable to all-in or escape, so you own the level-6 window before his graves finish stacking. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your first-item Q burst spike still races his Maiden timing, so a clean combo can kill him — but it's the last clean window before the lane goes 2v1. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard: Maiden, the ghoul swarm and his W wall win the side-lane 1v1 and his splitpush ends games — play safe and roam instead of dueling. |
"Yorick at levels 1-2 is a melee with a couple of ghouls and no gap-closer, so start the poke war the instant you have Q. Curse him with Twofold Hex, recast to pull the curse back for the second hit, and weave E spirit blasts to chip him while your passive heals you off the spirits you exorcise. The thing to respect is his E — those mist walls slow you and box you in so his ghouls and autos free-hit you, so don't walk into them, and never let him bank four graves uncontested toward Maiden."
The full Aurora 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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