How to win lane as Jayce against Yorick · 47.78% win rate over 1,329 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Jayce | You out-range him with the gate-Q and he has no ghouls yet to block the orb — free poke on every walk-up to last-hit a grave. |
| Level 2 | Jayce | Swapping stances for the Cannon-Hammer armor/MR shred lets you stack damage faster than his Q (Last Rites) can heal it. |
| Level 3 | Jayce | Your full gate-Q plus the stance-swap shred bursts him before Maiden exists to soak it, so the health lead is yours pre-6. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yorick | His R summons Maiden of the Mist and the ghoul swarm tanks your poke — your R is just a stance-swap with no new burst, so the window flips to him. |
| Level 6 | Yorick | His first sustain item plus the ghoul wall let him survive the orb and stat-check your squishy frame. |
| First item | Yorick | His W (Dark Procession) cage and E (Mourning Mist) slow trap you in the swarm — he out-1v1s you once he has items. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | He out-scales and out-splits hard — Maiden, cage and slow zone you off the side wave while your teamfight DPS evaporates at two items. |
Yorick is one of the rare juggernauts you genuinely bully here, but only before his ghouls stack. With no minions to body-block the orb, fire Shock Blast through your Acceleration Gate at his head every time he steps up for a grave last-hit, then swap stances for the Cannon-Hammer armor/MR shred to chunk him. Do NOT melee-trade into his Q (Last Rites) heal or stand in his E (Mourning Mist) — that mist slows you and rushes his ghouls onto you. Keep it a ranged poke war where his slow walk-up and wide hitbox cannot answer your gate-Q.
The full Jayce 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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