Yorick vs Cassiopeia — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Cassiopeia · 54.23% win rate over 555 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Cassiopeia owns 5 of the 7 game windows, yet the win rate favours Yorick: survive their windows and the game is yours. Yorick wins 54.23% of games vs Cassiopeia in top lane (555 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1CassiopeiaCassiopeia wins level 1 — Q and E poke plus Miasma ground beat your melee approach.
Level 2CassiopeiaCassiopeia holds level 2 with continued ranged DPS you can't retaliate against.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 evens as ghouls soak her poke and you can E-mist a trade.
Levels 4-5CassiopeiaCassiopeia retakes levels 4-5 with escalating E spam and CS control.
Level 6Even / skillLevel 6 is a skill wash but her Petrifying Gaze stun denies your all-ins.
First itemCassiopeiaCassiopeia favours the first-item spike — her E out-DPSes your ghoul stack.
Two+ itemsCassiopeiaCassiopeia stays ahead at 2+ items with unrelenting poke and teamfight range.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Cassiopeia runs levels 1-2 — her Q Noxious Blast and E Twin Fang out-poke your melee kit while W Miasma grounds you so you can't close the gap. Soak XP behind ghouls, block Q with the wave, and don't step onto her Miasma.

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The full Yorick vs Cassiopeia 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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