How to win lane as Yorick against Kayle · 48.12% win rate (877 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Crush her early — swarm her off CS before she scales.
Track: Kayle's R — Divine Judgment (160–80s cooldown). Her get-out at 6. Bait it.
Read from Yorick's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Kayle.
This is Yorick's own plan; across 877 pooled games the lane is leaning Kayle.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even, but Kayle's weakness lets you set up early shove pressure. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays skill-based as you shove and she farms defensively. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 remains even while you deny CS and stack Maiden. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 are still skill-based as you build your 6 all-in. |
| Level 6 | Yorick | At 6 your Maiden and E slow overwhelm her single-target R, favouring you. |
| First item | Yorick | First-item Maiden and ghouls out-DPS a still-scaling Kayle. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | You hold the lead late as long as you end before her hyper-carry spike. |
Levels 1-5 are skill-based on paper but heavily aggression-favoured: Kayle is a helpless melee laner with weak waveclear, so shove into her, deny farm, and build the lead that keeps her from scaling.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yorick's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yorick vs Kayle 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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Kayle, slightly — Yorick wins 48.12% of 877 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Kayle has a small statistical edge (51.88% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Kayle has the slight edge (Yorick wins 48.12%), though it stays close.
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 Kayle.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion (vs her poke) and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts her healing. Build Trinity Force (the all-purpose spike) first, then Hullbreaker, with Mercury's Treads.
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