How to win lane as Kennen against Yorick · 47.35% win rate over 302 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yorick's level 1 is sluggish and yours is fragile — one Q poke chips but neither of you commits, so it reads even. |
| Level 2 | Kennen | Your second Q point plus Electrical Surge on-hit out-pokes a Maiden-less Yorick and threatens a two-spell mark stun. |
| Level 3 | Kennen | You still own the wave here — Q chip and Mark of the Storm punish his clunky melee before ghouls come online. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yorick | Maiden's ghouls now out-DPS your poke and his E cage walls your escape, so he reclaims the hard-commit window. |
| Level 6 | Kennen | Slicing Maelstrom plus Flash-R stun-locks and bursts him through his magic-vulnerable body before Maiden swings the duel. |
| First item | Kennen | Hextech Alternator / Liandry's turns your R combo into a kill — your burst peaks here while he's still a one-item juggernaut. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales you hard: Maiden, ghoul swarm and E-cage zone you off the wave and out-trade you once R is down. |
Yorick is slow and clunky pre-6, so levels 2-3 are yours: throw Q (Thundering Shuriken) at his face and let Electrical Surge autos stack Mark of the Storm — his low base HP means a third-mark stun into a quick trade chunks him before he can answer. Dodge his E (Dark Procession) cage, because that mist ring slows you and lets his ghouls and W wall pin your fragile body for a swarm trade. Don't sit in the wave eating ghoul autos while you poke him; back off and reset the marks rather than trading HP-for-HP with a juggernaut.
The full Kennen 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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