Yorick vs Warwick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Warwick · 49.14% win rate over 1,164 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Yorick owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Warwick's 2, but the win rate still favours Warwick: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Yorick wins 49.14% of games vs Warwick in top lane (1,164 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1WarwickWarwick's Jaws (Q) sustain heals through your level 1 trades.
Level 2WarwickAt 2 his Blood Hunt chase and Q healing keep him ahead.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 evens out as you shove and space his engage.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 stay even until your ghoul DPS starts to out-scale his sustain.
Level 6YorickAt 5/6 Yorick out-DPSes him with ghouls and can pre-cage his R.
First itemYorickFirst item plus Maiden and grievous wounds bury his single-target healing.
Two+ itemsYorickLate, Yorick's split and ghoul swarm win the sidelane outright.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Warwick wins levels 1-2: his Jaws of the Beast (Q) heals him through your trades, his Blood Hunt passive speeds him at you when you drop low, and his sustain simply out-lasts your early Q Last Rites pokes. Farm patiently, soak damage on ghouls from Shepherd of Souls, and don't dip low enough to trigger his Blood Hunt chase.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Warwick 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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