Yorick vs Vayne — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Vayne · 54.19% win rate over 2,054 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Vayne owns 4 of the 7 game windows, yet the win rate favours Yorick: survive their windows and the game is yours. Yorick wins 54.19% of games vs Vayne in top lane (2,054 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1VayneVayne's Tumble (Q) resets and true-damage Silver Bolts (W) win level 1.
Level 2VayneAt 2 her range and kiting keep her freely poking you down.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 evens as your Mourning Mist (E) mark and cage let you pin her.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 stay even with W cage timing offsetting her Tumble spacing.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 skill holds only if you dodge Final Hour (R) invisibility kiting.
First itemVayneFirst item swings back to Vayne as BotRK and true damage melt you.
Two+ itemsVayneLate, Vayne out-scales into a hypercarry that shreds your bruiser HP.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Vayne owns levels 1-2: her Tumble (Q) auto-resets and Silver Bolts (W) true damage punish any all-in, and her range means she pokes you freely as you last-hit. Farm with Q Last Rites, soak her poke on ghouls from Shepherd of Souls, and don't chase her past the Tumble reset.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Vayne 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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