How to win lane as Jayce against Yorick · 45.03% win rate (3,140 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Poke him off Maiden — E-knock him, dodge the cage.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). Traps you for ghouls. Don’t get caged.
Read from Jayce's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Jayce's own plan; across 3,140 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| 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 | Even / skill | You still hold both forms and he still has no Maiden, so keep chunking his grave last-hits and bank the health lead while the poke war is one-sided. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | His R summons Maiden of the Mist and the swarm tanks your poke, while your R is only a stance-swap. |
| First item | Even / skill | His first sustain item plus the ghoul wall let him survive the orb and stat-check your squishy frame at last. |
| Two+ items | Jayce | He out-scales and out-splits hard — Maiden, the cage and Mourning Mist's armour shred zone you off the side wave entirely. |
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.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Jayce's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Yorick, slightly — Jayce wins 45.03% of 3,140 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (54.97% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Jayce wins 45.03%), though it stays close.
Jayce takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Unflinching) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Eclipse (poke + dive burst) first, then Serylda's Grudge, with Plated Steelcaps.
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