Singed vs Yorick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Singed against Yorick · 53.09% win rate over 1,181 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: A genuine skill matchup — the favour swings window to window (3 apiece of the 7 stages). Singed wins 53.09% of games vs Yorick in top lane (1,181 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickYorick spawns ghouls off the first minion wave and his E mark gives instant slow and root on exit — you have no reliable way to kite him yet, so concede and proxy.
Level 2YorickWith two ghouls and Dark Procession available, Yorick can wall you mid-retreat and win the extended trade before your Fling cooldown resets — avoid all-ins.
Level 3Even / skillFull kit online but Yorick's ghoul swarm still outnumbers your damage; trade by running Poison Trail through his minions and ghouls, not through Yorick himself.
Levels 4-5SingedProxy under his tower forces Yorick to choose between his wave and chasing you — his ghouls waste on your turret while you bank gold and deny graves stacks.
Level 6SingedInsanity Potion's movement speed and magic resist let you outrun the ghoul swarm and fling Yorick away from Maiden — this is your lane-flip window.
First itemSingedRylai's turns every Poison Trail pass into a slow that pins Yorick out of Dark Procession range — force the 1v1 here while he still can't sustain through your kite.
Two+ itemsYorickMaiden plus full ghoul army outraces your poison attrition at two-plus items — proxy and split rather than duel; the map pressure wins the game, not the 1v1.

Early game (levels 1–5)

You lose levels 1-2 outright — Yorick's first ghoul from the wave and his E mark let him all-in you before you can build any kite angle, and your Poison Trail alone doesn't keep pace with his burst. Don't contest the wave early: proxy under his tower or behind his wave to deny him the ghoul stacks he needs. The moment he marks you with E and his ghouls are up, disengage hard — running into his mist slows you and sets up a Dark Procession wall that removes Fling as an escape. If you're forced to trade, bait him inside your poison cloud and immediately run perpendicular so his ghouls overshoot; even at level 3 with Mega Adhesive you're not winning the prolonged fight, you're buying time.

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The full Singed 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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