Urgot vs Yorick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Urgot against Yorick · 45.21% win rate (1,429 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15

Verdict: Yorick is slightly favoured — Urgot wins 45.21% of 1,429 games. Play it patient and win your windows.

At a glance

His Maiden and ghouls out-trade your knees and the cage walls your E-flip. Farm safe and scale to teamfights.

Track: Yorick's W — Dark Procession (20–12s cooldown). Traps you for the ghouls. Don’t get caged.

Do

  • Dodge his W cage
  • Poke through his ghouls with Q
  • W-shred when Maiden is down

Don't

  • Get caged
  • Fight into Maiden + ghouls
  • Let him free-farm

Runes & build vs Yorick

Start
Doran's Blade + Health Potion
First back
Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing
First item
Black Cleaver (shred + the leg tempo)
Then
Sterak's Gage
Boots
Plated Steelcaps
Runes
Press the Attack (Precision): Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand · Resolve: Bone Plating, Unflinching · Shards: Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, Health

Favour timeline — the windows in Urgot's game plan

Read from Urgot's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yorick.

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillLevel 1 is even skill — no ghoul swarm yet, so it's a fair walk-up dance.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 stays a skill matchup as both of you jockey for the first trade.
Level 3Even / skillAt 3 it's still even — you clear ghouls but he hasn't spiked either.
Levels 4-5UrgotLevel 4 you edge ahead: Q wave-clear and W punish before the Maiden matters.
Level 6UrgotLevel 5 you keep the pre-Maiden lead with cleaner trades.
First itemYorickLevel 6 R summons the Maiden and his sustained ghoul grind flips the duel to him.
Two+ itemsYorickTwo-plus items Yorick's Maiden, cage and split-push out-duel you, so he stays favoured.

How to beat Yorick as Urgot: the early game

Levels 1-3 are a skill dance — no Maiden yet, so trade on your terms: Q his ghouls, W him and the pack together, and dodge E Mourning Mist so his swarm can't stick to your E charge. Even ground if you play it clean.

Hardest and easiest matchups for Urgot in top lane

Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Urgot's side, sampled July 2026.

Hardest

Easiest

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The full Urgot 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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Common questions

Who wins Urgot vs Yorick in top lane?

Yorick, slightly — Urgot wins 45.21% of 1,429 games; winnable with the right plan.

Is Urgot vs Yorick a skill matchup?

Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (54.79% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.

Does Urgot counter Yorick?

No — if anything Yorick has the slight edge (Urgot wins 45.21%), though it stays close.

What runes does Urgot take vs Yorick?

Urgot takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Unflinching) vs Yorick.

What should Urgot build vs Yorick?

Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Black Cleaver (shred + the leg tempo) first, then Sterak's Gage, with Plated Steelcaps.

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