How to win lane as Zac against Yorick · 48.65% win rate over 148 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yorick | Yorick wins level 1 because Last Rites (Q) heals through your poke and out-sustains your blob. |
| Level 2 | Yorick | At 2 his Mist Walkers start piling on with E-mark, tilting trades his way. |
| Level 3 | Yorick | At 3 his full Q-E-ghoul package out-damages and out-heals you in every exchange. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yorick | Levels 4-5 his Cage (W) can trap you in the swarm for a lopsided extended trade. |
| Level 6 | Yorick | At 6 Eulogy of the Isles (R) Maiden makes the side lane a 2v1 he wins outright. |
| First item | Yorick | At first item his ghoul DPS and split-push pressure keep him ahead 1v1. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | With 2+ items it's Skill — your teamfight engage and CC offset his 1v1 dominance if you group. |
Yorick owns the early game: Last Rites (Q) heals him through your poke, Mourning Mist (E) slows and marks you so his Mist Walkers pile on, and once he has a few ghouls up his sustained damage plus self-heal make any trade lopsided — just soak farm and body-block ghouls where you can.
The full Zac vs Yorick 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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