How to win lane as Cho'Gath against Yorick · 47.95% win rate (1,535 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
E-spikes shred the Maiden, rupture cancels the cage, and Feast keeps you fatter than anything his split can do.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). Traps you for ghouls. Don’t get caged.
Read from Cho'Gath's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Cho'Gath's own plan; across 1,535 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You both have weak level 1s — he has no ghoul swarm assembled yet and you have no Q-W combo, so deny his Q last-hits and set up the wave without stepping into his Mourning Mist range. |
| Level 2 | Yorick | Mourning Mist slows, shreds armour and marks you so ghouls and autos home in, and Last Rites is an auto-reset that heals him - his most abusable window, so soak with Vorpal Spikes and don't trade back into it. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | By 4-5 your Q-W combo and Vorpal Spikes clear stabilize the lane to even, and Carnivore keeps you topped up — start contesting once his Mourning Mist is on cooldown. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cho'Gath | Feast (R) executes through his bruiser HP and ignores armor and MR — it answers his all-in, snaps off his Maiden, and gives you your first real lead with permanent stacks. |
| Level 6 | Cho'Gath | Your HP and tank components plus Feast stacks let you facetank the ghoul swarm and out-DPS him with Vorpal Spikes in extended trades — force every all-in in this window. |
| First item | Cho'Gath | Feral Scream silences him out of re-casting E or W mid-fight, and chained off Rupture's knockup it locks him down long enough for Vorpal Spikes and a Feast to land — your cleanest kill setup. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales the duel: at two items his Maiden, ghoul army and a 12-second cage zone you off the side wave, so close the game before those items land. |
Levels 1-3 are Yorick's window, not yours. Mourning Mist slows, MARKS you so every ghoul and auto homes in, and reduces your armour before the swarm even arrives, and Last Rites is an auto-attack reset that heals him, so the wind-up is your cue to back off. Note his E is the homing globule and his W is the wall - and that wall is destructible, so if he cages you, hit it rather than stand there. Don't walk up to last-hit into the mark; soak the wave with Vorpal Spikes at range and lean on Carnivore to stay topped up. Once his ghouls are spent you get a window, and Mourning Mist is 12 seconds at rank 1.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Cho'Gath's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Cho'Gath 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 — Cho'Gath wins 47.95% of 1,535 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (52.05% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Cho'Gath wins 47.95%), though it stays close.
Cho'Gath takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Heartsteel (stacks with Feast forever) first, then Riftmaker / Thornmail, with Plated Steelcaps.
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