How to win lane as Irelia against Yorick · 56.53% win rate over 1,033 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 you have only Q and no stun, and his E (Mourning Mist) slow plus ghoul mark can swarm you — just farm with Bladesurge resets. |
| Level 2 | Irelia | W (Defiant Dance) gives you the damage-reduction channel to survive his ghoul autos and start contesting trades. |
| Level 3 | Irelia | At 3, E (Flawless Duet) stuns and your Q resets off his ghouls, so you burst him before Maiden of the Mist exists and his stock is low. |
| Levels 4-5 | Irelia | Your Bladesurge passive comes online and his ghouls become free Q-reset targets, letting you stick to him through the swarm. |
| Level 6 | Irelia | R (Vanguard's Edge) walls off his W-cage retreat and the wave, trapping him for the dive — your hardest all-in before he scales. |
| First item | Irelia | Trinity Force online with full reset uptime and Bladesurge's armor shred makes you a lane tyrant who dashes off his own ghouls to kill him. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard — full Maiden, a stocked ghoul cage, and his W wall win the splitpush you cannot duel, so end before this window. |
Level 1 you have only Q and no stun, so just farm with Bladesurge resets off the wave and do not walk into his E (Mourning Mist) — that slow plus the ghoul mark is how Yorick turns free farm into a swarm gank on you. Once W (Defiant Dance) is up at 2, you have the damage-reduction channel to eat his ghoul autos through a trade, and at 3 your E (Flawless Duet) stun into a Q-reset is your first real all-in: stun him, dash, and shred his armor before his ghoul stock and graves pile on. The key is to commit when his E is on cooldown so the ghouls cannot leash you in place.
The full Irelia 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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