How to win lane as Yorick against Karma · 53.37% win rate (2,908 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Weather the poke — cage her with the swarm up and let the ghouls eat.
Track: Karma's W — Focused Resolve (12s cooldown). Her root tether — breaks if you LoS / outrange it.
Read from Yorick's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Karma.
This is Yorick's own plan; across 2,908 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Karma's level-1 Inner Flame poke and W root out-range your melee before you have ghouls. |
| Level 2 | Karma | At 2 she still out-ranges you — Inner Flame chips while your ghoul count is thin. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Mourning Mist at 3 evens it: the mark slows her and ghouls leap on it. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 stay even — her shields answer your ghouls without a clear edge. |
| Level 6 | Yorick | Karma has no level-6 spike; Maiden floods a wave her single Q cannot clear. |
| First item | Yorick | Your Maiden and first item overwhelm her single-target shields for a Yorick all-in. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Late, her utility scaling and your split roughly balance into a skill matchup. |
Karma edges level 1: her Inner Flame (Q) out-ranges your melee autos and Focused Resolve (W) can root you for chip damage before you have ghouls to trade back.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yorick's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yorick vs Karma 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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Yorick, slightly — a 53.37% win rate edge over 2,908 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (53.37% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Yorick has a slight edge (53.37% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Yorick takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Bone Plating) vs Karma.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion (vs her poke) and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Trinity Force (the all-purpose spike) first, then Hullbreaker, with Mercury's Treads.
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