How to win lane as Neeko against Yorick · 44.98% win rate (658 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He has to wade through roots and blooms to farm — chunk every step-up and never get touched.
Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). The cage traps you with the ghoul swarm — sidestep or break it instantly.
Read from Neeko's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.
This is Neeko's own plan; across 658 pooled games the lane is Yorick-favoured.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neeko has no combo at level 1 with only single-target Q, and Yorick's ghouls plus E mist-cage punish a greedy step-up — neither champ wants to commit yet. |
| Level 2 | Neeko | A second Q point gives you Blooming Burst poke and his short-range ghoul swarm can't answer it from afar. |
| Level 3 | Neeko | Q+E comes online: you root the dashless Yorick with Tangle-Barbs and the Blooming Burst re-bloom hits him because he can't leave the seed. |
| Levels 4-5 | Neeko | You out-poke and out-clear him, thinning the ghouls — Last Rites (Q) heals on a 6s reset, so buy anti-heal. |
| Level 6 | Neeko | Pop Blossom turns a landed E-root into a full burst combo, and disguise/clone setups let you channel R unseen for a kill he can't cancel. |
| First item | Neeko | Liandry's/Blackfire Torch spike: your AoE burst clears Maiden and deletes him before his mist cage and wall can trap you. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales as a splitpush juggernaut — Maiden, ghouls, the Dark Procession cage and Mourning Mist's slow outlast your single rotation. |
Yorick can't dash, so your E (Tangle-Barbs) is a free root once you hit level 3 — but don't waste it on the ghoul swarm. Mourning Mist (E) marks you and his Mist Walkers sprint at whatever it hits, so eating it is the tell the swarm is coming: farm with the tip of Q (Blooming Burst) and clear the ghouls with the re-bloom. Once you have Q+E, wait for him to walk up to last-hit, root him, and drop Q on the spot — he cannot leave the seed before it blooms again.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Neeko's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Neeko 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 — Neeko wins only 44.98% of 658 games, so Neeko plays this as the disadvantaged side.
Not really — Yorick holds a real statistical advantage (55.02% win rate), so Neeko is the one working uphill.
No — Yorick counters Neeko (Neeko wins only 44.98% of games). Play it as the disadvantaged side and lean on the windows in the plan.
Neeko takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Overgrowth) vs Yorick.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Stormsurge first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Plated Steelcaps.
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