How to win lane as Olaf against Yorick · 56.15% win rate over 894 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Olaf | Yorick is a slow immobile melee with no level-1 escape — your Q-slow-into-auto and passive win first contact before any ghoul or Maiden exists. |
| Level 2 | Olaf | Your Q plus E lands a guaranteed true-damage burst his ghoul-walls can't shield, and he has no dash to dodge it. |
| Level 3 | Olaf | Axe-reset slows keep him stuck in E range for a second true-damage nuke he can't sustain through without Maiden. |
| Levels 4-5 | Olaf | You out-trade a pre-Maiden Yorick — W omnivamp heals the ghoul chip and your slows deny his retreat. |
| Level 6 | Olaf | Ragnarok removes his E mist-cage and W wall and grants immunity to all his CC, so he can't zone or kite you out of the all-in. |
| First item | Olaf | Your Bramble/Black Cleaver dive spike beats his first-item Yorick before the ghoul army and Maiden snowball — force it now. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | He out-scales hard: full Maiden plus the ghoul swarm out-DPS your flat true damage and his cage-and-split wins the side lane — play for an early lead and end before this. |
Yorick is slow and immobile at Levels 1-3 with no escape, which is exactly your meal. Land Q to slow him, walk up, and E for the chunk of guaranteed true damage — his ghoul-walls (W) and the graves only shield him once they're up, so hit him before he has ghouls stacked or Maiden out. Watch his E: if it lands the mist-slow and cage you, his autos and ghouls chunk you, so don't path through it — your passive attack speed only helps if you're actually on him, not stuck behind a wall.
The full Olaf 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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