Zac vs Yorick — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Zac against Yorick · 48.65% win rate over 148 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Yorick is favoured — Yorick owns 6 of the 7 game windows. Play it patient and win your windows. Zac wins 48.65% of games vs Yorick in top lane (148 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YorickYorick wins level 1 because Last Rites (Q) heals through your poke and out-sustains your blob.
Level 2YorickAt 2 his Mist Walkers start piling on with E-mark, tilting trades his way.
Level 3YorickAt 3 his full Q-E-ghoul package out-damages and out-heals you in every exchange.
Levels 4-5YorickLevels 4-5 his Cage (W) can trap you in the swarm for a lopsided extended trade.
Level 6YorickAt 6 Eulogy of the Isles (R) Maiden makes the side lane a 2v1 he wins outright.
First itemYorickAt first item his ghoul DPS and split-push pressure keep him ahead 1v1.
Two+ itemsEven / skillWith 2+ items it's Skill — your teamfight engage and CC offset his 1v1 dominance if you group.

Early game (levels 1–5)

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.

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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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