Sejuani vs Yorick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Sejuani against Yorick · 48.65% win rate over 111 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Yorick is favoured — Yorick owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Sejuani's 1. Play it patient and win your windows. Sejuani wins 48.65% of games vs Yorick in top lane (111 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickYorick's Last Rites spawns a ghoul on minion kills at level 1 — he builds ghoul pressure at the wave line before Arctic Assault exists, so give him the early boundary.
Level 2Even / skillDark Procession arrives but so does your Q — the cage cooldown is your engagement timer; if it is unclear, hold Q as an exit.
Level 3Even / skillFull W-W into E Permafrost is your first real punish window — bait the cage, sidestep it, then commit the full chain while he has no answer.
Levels 4-5YorickHis juggernaut base stats and sustained ghoul DPS outpace your unitemized resistances — farm, track Dark Procession, and wait for 6.
Level 6SejuaniGlacial Prison lets you stun him from outside cage range — every gank you receive converts instantly through the R into E Permafrost CC chain.
First itemEven / skillSunfire Aegis burn punishes Maiden and ghoul clustering in melee range; neutral trades tip your way but he still has enough raw damage to respect.
Two+ itemsYorickMaiden of the Mist and full juggernaut itemization make the solo 1v1 unsafe — shift entirely to teamfight anchoring and let your CC decide objectives.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 is his — Yorick's Last Rites spawns a ghoul on each kill and he can immediately apply ghoul pressure to the wave boundary before you have Q. Take W first, hit minions, and stay at your tower-side edge so his ghoul swarm has no angle to surround you. At level 2 you get Arctic Assault but his Dark Procession is also coming online: do not Q into him until you can confirm the cage is on cooldown, or you will be stunned inside it with a ghoul pack on top of you. Level 3 lets you run W into W into E Permafrost — that full chain is your first real trade. Bait his cage forward with a W poke, sidestep it, then Q knock-up into the double W sweep and Permafrost stun while he has no answer up.

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The full Sejuani 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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