How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Yorick · 48.9% win rate over 2,272 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | With one ability and no aura yet you have no all-in, and his Mist Walker ghouls chip you for free while he farms safe behind them — just last-hit and set up your level 2 spike. |
| Level 2 | Mordekaiser | Q + W comes online: single-target Obliterate plus a banked Indestructible shield wins short trades before his R-Maiden ever exists and while his ghoul count is still low. |
| Level 3 | Mordekaiser | Now you E-pull him off his ghoul line, Q-sweetspot, and Darkness Rise sustain out-grinds his swarm in a real extended trade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Mordekaiser | Through 4-5 your aura and W-heal still out-last his ghoul chip as long as you glue to him with E before he kites behind the pets and his E-mist slow. |
| Level 6 | Mordekaiser | Realm of Death banishes Yorick away from his Maiden, ghouls, and W-walls into a clean isolated 1v1 he has no tools to zone you in — your hardest spike of the lane. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your magic-item + Sorcerer's boots all-in can still crack him through the E-mist, but his Maiden uptime and ghoul stacks are starting to snowball plates — a genuine coin-flip window. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | He out-scales hard at 2+ items: Maiden soaks your aura, ghouls and Maiden shred your E-mist-marked body, and his W-walls zone you off the wave while his pet army out-splits you. |
"Yorick's early is built on ghouls — he raises Mist Walkers off dead minions and shoves them at you while he last-hits behind them. Punish the windows when his ghoul count is low: E-pull him as he steps up to CS, Q-sweetspot for the single-target bonus, and bank that damage into your Indestructible shield. Watch his E — Mourning Mist is the slow-and-mark globule, not a wall; if it lands, his ghouls and Maiden all swivel onto you and he can W a ring of spectral walls to box you in for free autos. Pre-6, before his R-Maiden exists, your W-sustain beats his swarm clean."
The full Mordekaiser 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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