How to win lane as Yorick against Locke · 50.07% win rate (745 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He needs six clean windows to do what your one all-in does — deny the nail stacks and Yorick turns his blink lane into a walk home.
Track: Locke's Q — Ritual Nails (10–6s cooldown). The nail marks are his whole engine — without 2-3 stacks on you his blink-in barely dents; sidestep the recasts and punish the ten seconds of nothing.
Read from Yorick's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Locke.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Even on skill at 1 - your ghoul zoning trades against his Silver Stake on-hit poke. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays a skill trade around your E Mourning Mist slow and banked graves. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 is even as your W cage and ghoul leaps meet his Q poke and W burst. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 remain skill-dependent - his dodges against your cage-and-ghoul setups. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6 is a knife-edge: his totem hunts your immobile frame, but a timed cage and ghoul wall body-block the all-in. |
| First item | Locke | At first item his burst plus execute totem genuinely deletes you - Purgatory preys on a caged-in immobile bruiser. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Late stays even-to-skill as your Maiden split pressure balances his execute picks. |
Levels 1-3 are a genuine skill stalemate: your ghouls and E Mourning Mist slow zone him off the wave, but his Q Ritual Nails poke and E Ashen Pursuit resets let him kite the swarm - trade grave stacks for his cooldowns, keep Q Last Rites healing you, and neither of you should die here.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yorick's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yorick vs Locke 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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Nobody on paper — a 50.07% win rate over 745 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Yorick vs Locke is a genuine skill matchup: 50.07% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Yorick vs Locke win rate is 50.07%, an even lane decided by execution.
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