How to win lane as Lucian against Yorick · 28.57% win rate over 7 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Lucian | Your long auto range and Lightslinger first-cast give you a level-1 edge Yorick can't answer with no dash and no ghoul stacks yet. |
| Level 2 | Lucian | Q plus the Lightslinger double-shot bursts Yorick before Maiden — you own the level-2 all-in window. |
| Level 3 | Lucian | With Q-W-E up you poke, proc W move speed, and dash his E mist — peak lane control over an escape-less juggernaut. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | His ghoul stacks and growing Maiden uptime start matching your trades — short fights still favor you but extended ones don't. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | The Culling is burst, but his E cage can trap you mid-channel, so the level-6 window is even — only all-in when his mist is down. |
| First item | Yorick | Once his Mythic and Maiden are online his ghoul wall tanks your double-shots and he out-stats your squishy frame. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick is a hard scaler: Maiden, ghouls, E zoning and splitpush bury a fallen-off Lucian — play for tempo, not the 1v1. |
Levels 1-3 are your whole game in this lane. Your long auto range plus the Lightslinger double-tap off Q lets you out-trade Yorick before he has ghoul stacks or Maiden, and he has no dash to escape your kite. Weave Q (Piercing Light) into the second Lightslinger shot, W (Ardent Blaze) for the move-speed proc to chase, and keep E (Relentless Pursuit) up to dodge his E mist wall. The one thing to never do: trade while standing inside his E (Dark Procession) circle — the wall traps you and his ghouls swarm a Lucian who can't kite out.
The full Lucian 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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