Yorick vs Yasuo — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yorick against Yasuo · 51.33% win rate over 2,751 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Yorick is favoured — Yorick owns 6 of the 7 game windows to Yasuo's 1. Yorick wins 51.33% of games vs Yasuo in top lane (2,751 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickLevel 1 is yours — Wind Wall can't stop ghouls or Maiden and his shield is bypassed.
Level 2YorickLevel 2 stays yours as your Q and E poke chunk him with no counterplay.
Level 3YorickLevel 3 favours you — W cage plus ghouls trap him and force E charges.
Levels 4-5YorickLevels 4-5 remain yours with E slow denying his kiting through trades.
Level 6YorickLevel 6 is yours because Last Breath is dead without a knockup you never give.
First itemYorickFirst item still favours you as ghouls ignore his shield and freezes hold.
Two+ itemsYasuoTwo-plus items go to Yasuo — full crit and teamfight flanks finally out-scale you.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are firmly yours — Yasuo's Wind Wall does nothing to your ghouls or Maiden, and his flow shield gets bypassed by pet damage. Poke him with Q and E every time he goes for a minion.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yorick vs Yasuo 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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