Yorick vs Gwen — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Gwen · 47.23% win rate over 1,029 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Gwen is favoured — Gwen owns 2 of the 7 game windows. Play it patient and win your windows. Yorick wins 47.23% of games vs Gwen in top lane (1,029 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillLevel 1 is an even farm start with neither champ threatening a kill.
Level 2Even / skillAt level 2 the trades stay balanced as your ghouls and her Q roughly cancel out.
Level 3Even / skillBy level 3 it's still skill-dependent, decided by dashes and wall timing.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 remain even since her W and your wall trade off cleanly.
Level 6Even / skillLevel 6 is a skill fight — Maiden pressures her but Hallowed Mist negates ghouls.
First itemGwenWith first item Needlework's shred plus W immunity win Gwen the extended duel.
Two+ itemsGwenIn the 2+ item stage Gwen out-duels and out-splits you, so she owns the side lane.

Early game (levels 1–5)

It's a dead-even farm lane through level 5 — neither of you kills the other cleanly; trade with ghouls and E-slow only when her Skip 'n Slash (E) is unavailable so she can't dance out of your wall.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Gwen 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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