How to win lane as Kassadin against Yorick · 48.12% win rate (1,062 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Survive the bully — every minute you're alive pre-6 is a minute closer to him being unable to play.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). The cage traps you with the ghoul swarm — sidestep or break it instantly.
Read from Kassadin's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Kassadin's own plan; across 1,062 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yorick | Yorick's E marks you for his ghoul swarm and his W wall can cage you — your lone Null Sphere and no escape lose this level-1 every time. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | He still out-bullies you with the W cage wall and ghouls; your Q is too mana-hungry to trade, so farm at Null Sphere range and call it even at best. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Without Nether Blade mana or any escape you lose any all-in he forces with a full ghoul stack — concede and survive. |
| Levels 4-5 | Kassadin | Maxed Null Sphere plus Nether Blade sustain finally lets the Q shield and your Catalyst health eat the ghoul chip, so you stop bleeding under tower. |
| Level 6 | Kassadin | Riftwalk blinks you over his W cage wall and out of Maiden's swarm — the E-mark stops landing kills and you fight back to even. |
| First item | Kassadin | Catalyst/Rod of Ages stalling plus Void Stone's magic reduction no-sell his ghouls, trading the lane back from losing to favoured. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales as a splitpusher: his Maiden + ghoul siege takes towers you can't 1v1, so this last window is his. |
Yorick owns levels 1-3 hard — Mourning Mist reaches 700 against your 650, shredding armour, slowing you and marking you for the ghoul dogpile, and Dark Procession walls you in on a 20s cooldown. But that wall is DESTRUCTIBLE: break a segment and walk out rather than eating the swarm. Last Rites is a 6s auto-attack reset that heals him, so the wind-up is the tell and long trades only refill him. Do NOT step up to last-hit with his ghoul stack full — take the CS loss and hold the Q shield for the step you cannot avoid.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Kassadin's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Kassadin 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 — Kassadin wins 48.12% of 1,062 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (51.88% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Kassadin wins 48.12%), though it stays close.
Kassadin takes Fleet Footwork on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Bone Plating) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Shield + 1 Health Potion and back for Tear + Oblivion Orb path — cuts his healing. Build Rod of Ages first, then Seraph's Embrace, with Plated Steelcaps.
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