Yorick vs Master Yi — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Master Yi · 44.77% win rate over 239 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Yorick owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Master Yi's 1, but the win rate still favours Master Yi: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Yorick wins 44.77% of games vs Master Yi in top lane (239 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickGhouls and Last Rites healing out-trade his bare level-1 kit.
Level 2YorickAt 2 Mist Walkers and the cage bully his single Alpha Strike.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 evens as his resets let him hop between your ghouls.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 stay skill-decided while your sustain matches his ramp.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 the Maiden makes it a wash until he spikes - a skill window.
First itemMaster YiFirst item he bursts past the ghouls and out-duels you.
Two+ itemsYorickBy 2+ items your Maiden and ghoul army out-DPS him in sustained fights.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 you bully him outright: Mist Walkers chew on him while Q Last Rites heals back his answers, and the W cage turns his single pre-reset Alpha Strike into a trap - zone him off CS and stack graves, because his kit needs levels and items before it can talk back to yours.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Master Yi 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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