How to win lane as Nasus against Yorick · 47.33% win rate (1,310 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Ghouls zone your farm — dodge his cage, clear ghouls, out-scale.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). Traps you for the ghouls. Don’t get caged.
Read from Nasus's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You're both slow, passive level-1 laners — you soak Q farm and stack while he sets up his W wall and ghouls, and neither of you can commit. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still even — you stack Q uncontested and he harvests ghouls; nobody owns the trade with no ult and few ghouls out yet. |
| Level 3 | Yorick | You get Wither at 3 to zero his attack speed if he commits ghouls, but you still lose extended trades — it nets out even. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yorick | Maiden of the Mist plus a full ghoul pack lets him zone you off the wave with E and shove you under tower while you hoard stacks. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Fury of the Sands plus Wither lets you survive or win a single all-in, but his Maiden and ghouls keep contesting — it's a coin-flip window. |
| First item | Yorick | Sheen empowers your Q and with stacks you out-duel his splitpush body, Withering his and Maiden's attack speed while lifesteal eats ghoul DPS. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard: at 2+ items his Maiden, ghoul pack and W cage win the protracted split — pivot to teamfights and don't sidelane him. |
Yorick and I are both slow, passive level-1 laners, so nobody owns the opening — I soak Q farm and start stacking while he places his W grave wall and harvests ghouls for his E mist. The trap to avoid is Mourning Mist: a thrown globule at 700 range that shreds my armor, slows me and primes the swarm — but it is a skillshot, so it is the one thing in his kit I can simply sidestep. At 3 I get Wither, and if he commits ghouls I zero his attack speed and Spirit Fire the pile — but I still lose the extended trade, so I take the farm.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Nasus's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Nasus 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 — Nasus wins 47.33% of 1,310 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (52.67% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Nasus wins 47.33%), though it stays close.
Nasus takes Fleet Footwork on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Unflinching) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Sheen (≈900g) — every Q after this hits twice as hard. Build Trinity Force (Iceborn Gauntlet if you need the slow + armor) first, then Frozen Heart (his attack speed dies here), with Plated Steelcaps.
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