How to win lane as Jax against Yorick · 55.48% win rate over 1,260 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even — Yorick has no poke and you only have Leap Strike with no Counter Strike yet, so just deny his ghoul-backed last-hits. |
| Level 2 | Jax | You take W and Q-onto-Yorick into an Empowered auto is burst he can't answer before Maiden exists. |
| Level 3 | Jax | Your full combo lands: Counter Strike dodges his autos and the ghouls' autos, then the recast stuns him. |
| Levels 4-5 | Jax | You out-trade him as you rank the combo — bait his E-mark, leap in, and his ghoul DPS just feeds your dodge. |
| Level 6 | Jax | Grandmaster at Arms' Armor/MR active plus the third-hit on-hit wins the level 6 all-in clean through his ghouls. |
| First item | Jax | Your Trinity / on-hit spike still beats his first item — close it now before Maiden compounds his scaling. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard: Maiden, the ghoul swarm and Dark Procession zoning overrun your duel and own the splitpush past two items. |
Yorick's level 1 is sleepy with no ranged poke on you, so just farm — but the second he starts raising ghouls from minion graves, every auto he throws comes backed by the swarm. At 2 take W: Leap Strike onto Yorick and Empower the landing hit for a sharp burst. At 3 your kit flips it hard — leap in, pop Counter Strike to dodge his autos AND the ghouls' autos, then recast to stun him through the pack. Punish before his E (Mourning Mist) marks you and pulls the whole swarm onto you.
The full Jax 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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