How to win lane as Yorick against Kassadin · 51.88% win rate (1,062 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Bully him early — cage him with the swarm up and let the ghouls eat.
Track: Kassadin's R — Riftwalk (5–2s cooldown). His mobility spike at 6. Kill him before it scales.
Read from Yorick's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Kassadin.
This is Yorick's own plan; across 1,062 pooled games the lane is leaning Yorick.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is yours — he has one 650-range Q and cannot answer a melee step-up. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | At 2 your ghouls arrive and he has no wave clear — shove and deny him. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Mourning Mist at 3 out-ranges his 650 Q and his shield eats only magic. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 stay yours — deny farm and set up the level-6 all-in. |
| Level 6 | Yorick | At 6 your Maiden and E slow let you all-in before Riftwalk snowballs. |
| First item | Yorick | With Maiden and first item you can still dive him before he scales. |
| Two+ items | Kassadin | Late, Kassadin's Riftwalk mobility and burst outscale you completely. |
Levels 1-5 are skill-based but favour aggression: Kassadin is a weak melee laner with no magic damage to fear from you, so shove, deny his farm, and build a lead while he's helpless.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yorick's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yorick vs Kassadin 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 51.88% win rate edge over 1,062 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Yorick has a small statistical edge (51.88% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Yorick has a slight edge (51.88% 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 (Bone Plating and Unflinching) vs Kassadin.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion 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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