How to win lane as Cassiopeia against Yorick · 45.77% win rate (555 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
A DPS check he fails — poison every step-up, ground his approach, and E-spam him off the wave.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). The cage traps you with the ghoul swarm — sidestep or break it instantly.
Read from Cassiopeia's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Cassiopeia's own plan; across 555 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 you have one ability and no poison to feed Twin Fang, while Yorick's passive ghoul gives him a free trade and last-hit edge — neither of you owns it. |
| Level 2 | Cassiopeia | Having two of Q and E lets you prime poison and land a refunded Twin Fang for a real trade his ghoul autos can't match. |
| Level 3 | Cassiopeia | Your Q-to-E poison combo plus passive move-speed kiting comes fully online and out-trades his slow, point-and-click ghoul pattern. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cassiopeia | Ranks in Q and E let you chain refunded Twin Fang through any extended trade, and W slows and poison-zones the ghouls Mourning Mist sends at you. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Petrifying Gaze stuns Yorick the moment he commits and turns your poke lead into a kill before Maiden of the Mist is even up. |
| First item | Cassiopeia | Liandry's or Malignance plus your passive AP ramps Twin Fang to shred him through the ghoul block — force every all-in in this window. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard: Maiden and ghouls body-block your Twin Fang, his W wall traps you, and he out-splitpushes the side lane — close it before this point. |
Level 1 is even — you have one ability and Yorick's passive ghoul gives him a last-hit and trade edge, so do not walk into auto range to throw a Q he sidesteps behind a ghoul. From level 2 you flip it: prime him with Q poison, then E for a near-free refunded Twin Fang, and Serpentine Grace keeps you out of ghoul autos. His opener is Mourning Mist (E) — the mark speeds every ghoul toward you, so treat the globule as the fight starting. Use W to slow him and poison his ghouls rather than to ground him: he has no dash to cancel.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Cassiopeia's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Cassiopeia 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 — Cassiopeia wins 45.77% of 555 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (54.23% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Cassiopeia wins 45.77%), though it stays close.
Cassiopeia takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Sorcery secondary (Manaflow Band and Transcendence) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Seraph's Embrace / Liandry's Torment first, then Rylai's Crystal Scepter, with No boots — bank the gold into Zhonya's earlier.
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