Pantheon vs Yorick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Pantheon against Yorick · 48.03% win rate over 1,041 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Pantheon owns 5 of the 7 game windows to Yorick's 1, but the win rate still favours Yorick: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Pantheon wins 48.03% of games vs Yorick in top lane (1,041 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1PantheonYorick is one of the weakest level 1s and your point-and-click W stun deals damage he cannot answer or trade back into.
Level 2PantheonYour level 2 W+Q spike all-ins him before Maiden or ghoul stacks exist to bail him out.
Level 3PantheonWith all three basics you E-block his E-mist auto-poke and W-stun for a real kill while his sustain is still minimal.
Levels 4-5PantheonEmpowered-Q poke and E damage-blocks keep you ahead as he tries to stabilize on graves and farm.
Level 6PantheonGrand Starfall is built for cross-map roams more than a 1v1, so you press tempo elsewhere rather than fight his Maiden head-on.
First itemEven / skillHis Maiden and ghoul economy are now online enough to trade evenly into your first item — neither side cleanly owns the side lane here.
Two+ itemsYorickHe hard out-scales: E-cage plus W wall plus Maiden + ghoul swarm out-DPS your shields and win the splitpush — play safe and group.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Yorick is one of the weakest pure level 1s in the game and you are one of the strongest — open with point-and-click W stun and a tapped Q for the reset and shove him off his ghoul grave-stacks. At 2 and 3 your empowered-Q poke plus the W-stun all-in flat out-trades him before Maiden exists; bait his E mist (the soul-cage slow he poke-procs with autos) by pre-loading your E block in that direction, then W in. Do not let him free-stack graves and free-farm — every wave he scales, and your whole case is winning these first three levels.

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The full Pantheon 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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