How to win lane as Yorick against Kayle · 48.12% win rate over 877 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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.
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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