How to win lane as Kassadin against Yorick · 71.43% win rate over 7 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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 your Q shield and Void Stone's 15% reduction 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 — his E (Mourning Mist) slows and marks you so his ghouls dogpile, and his W (Dark Procession) wall can trap you in place, while you have nothing but a mana-hungry Null Sphere and no escape until 6. Do NOT walk up to last-hit when his ghoul stack is full; eat a couple CS losses rather than an E-mark-into-swarm combo that takes a third of your HP. Pop Q for its shield to absorb the ghoul chip when you must step in, and just survive — you have zero kill pressure here and every all-in he forces, he wins.
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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