Yorick vs Wukong — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Wukong · 49.1% win rate over 2,177 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Yorick owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Wukong's 1, but the win rate still favours Wukong: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Yorick wins 49.1% of games vs Wukong in top lane (2,177 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickLevel 1 favours you — Q Last Rites sustain out-trades Wukong before he has his clone.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 is even as Wukong gains a point but still lacks his all-in tools.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 stays skill-based; his combo isn't online and your poke matches his.
Levels 4-5WukongLevel 4 is Wukong's spike — W clone plus Q armour-shred lets him all-in before your ghoul wall.
Level 6YorickLevel 6 swings to you — Maiden plus a pre-placed W cage lets you tank Cyclone and out-damage him.
First itemYorickFirst item favours you as Maiden's sustained pressure beats his bruiser burst.
Two+ itemsYorickTwo-plus items are yours — split-push with ghouls and Maiden overpowers a single-target duelist.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are yours — you out-trade with Q Last Rites healing and Wukong has no clone yet, so poke him whenever he steps for a minion. Respect his Q armour-shred but he can't commit hard this early.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Wukong 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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