By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Shepherd of Souls
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (1,235 games).
Yorick, Shepherd of Souls, summons Mist Walkers to swarm his enemies and calls the Maiden of the Mist with Eulogy of the Isles. Most counted Master+ Yoricks took Grasp of the Undying and built AD, Trinity Force first. Yone, Urgot and Jax beat him most often, all on small samples. Jayce, the pair counted most, was near-even.
FighterTank
Patch 26.18 · Top · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 1,235 games · Preview sample
1,235
Games
Moderate
Confidence
47.8%Win Rate
Flash
Teleport73.3%Win Rate
FlashTeleport
This exact page: taken in 5.7% of games·43.7% win rate over 71 games.
Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.
Your third attack against turrets deals bonus damage.
After taking damage from an enemy champion heal back some missing health over time.
Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.
Gain a free Biscuit every 2 min, until 6 min. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health and restores health.
Bonus MS towards nearby enemy champions that are movement impaired, increased for enemy champions that you impair.
Conqueror27.7% taken · 50.6% win342 games
Arcane Comet6.7% taken · 42.2% win83 games
Deathfire Touch3.7% taken · 39.1% win46 gamesResolve + Inspiration42.7% taken · 48.0% win527 games
Precision + Resolve22.1% taken · 49.5% win273 gamesResolve + Precision14.7% taken · 44.2% win181 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Yorick's most common path.
QYorick deals bonus damage on his next attack and heals himself.
Cooldown 6/5.5/5/4.5/4s · 20 Mana
WYorick summons a destructible wall at target location that will block enemy movement.
Cooldown 20/18/16/14/12s · 70 Mana
EYorick throws a globule of Black Mist that reduces armor, damages, slows and marks enemies.
Cooldown 12/11/10/9/8s · 50/55/60/65/70 Mana
RYorick summons the Maiden of the Mist that causes Yorick's attacks against the Maiden's target to deal bonus damage.
Cooldown 160/130/100s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QLast Rites | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WDark Procession | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EMourning Mist | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| REulogy of the Isles | R | R | R |
How Yorick performs against enemy top laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Build percentage damage — flat penetration falls off against the stats it stacks
Punish the cooldown — Yorick is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 6/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
PShepherd of Souls
The Cursed Horde: Yorick can summon Mist Walkers to swarm and attack nearby enemies.
Passive — never cast
QLast Rites
Yorick deals bonus damage on his next attack and heals himself. If the target is a champion or large monster or if the target dies, a grave will be dug.
Cost 20 ManaCooldown 6/5.5/5/4.5/4sRange 0
WDark Procession
Yorick summons a destructible wall at target location that will block enemy movement.
Cost 70 ManaCooldown 20/18/16/14/12sRange 600
EMourning Mist
Yorick throws a globule of Black Mist that reduces armor, damages, slows and marks enemies. Summoned units gain move speed when moving towards marked targets.
Cost 50/55/60/65/70 ManaCooldown 12/11/10/9/8sRange 700
REulogy of the Isles
Yorick summons the Maiden of the Mist that causes Yorick's attacks against the Maiden's target to deal bonus damage. The Maiden will also automatically raise Walkers from dead enemies.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 160/130/100sRange 600
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Yorick in 7 patches. The latest is patch 25.13, published 2025-06-24.
Base Stats
Our Yorick changes last patch succeeded in re-introducing some more choice into his first slot but failed to strip out as much power as we wanted to. This patch we're continuing to nerf his early strengths in order to give more champions room to fight back against him before completed items come online.
PShepard of Souls
QLast Rites
We’re taking aim at Yorick’s late-laning phase spike this patch, where he quickly becomes unassailable until eventually falling off a cliff. We’re reducing the power of this early power spike and lightly returning some of that power into his Mist Walkers very late into the game.
PShepard of Souls
Another patch, another Yorick change! Look, we’re just going for thematically resonant changes at this point. After all, he can’t die. We’re looking to reduce his power level in the jungle a little, as he’s still a bit overboard in that role.
PShepherd of Souls
EMourning Mist
REulogy of the Isles
While last patch's Yorick update was largely successful at giving Yorick more access to his Mist Walkers and a fighting chance in the early lane, it also managed to significantly skew him toward the jungle, where he's really overperforming. This follow-up patch is intended to give us better jungle-vs-lane levers so that we can tune him for his separate roles more effectively. We expect these changes to be somewhat power down for jungle Yorick and mostly neutral for his top lane gameplay.
Base Stats
PShepherd of Souls
QLast Rites
EMourning Mist
RMaiden of the Mist
We're delivering a large-scale update to Yorick this patch with two primary goals. First, we'd like to make Yorick better for Yorick players, filling in some of his dead points and making him a more complete champion. Second, we'd like to make him stronger in higher level play, adding some extra skill expression to Yorick and making him more resilient when faced with high-skill opponents. We're also doing some minor adjustments that make Yorick easier to re-tune in the future. More on that later. To make Yorick more self-sufficient and fill in gaps in his gameplay, we're pushing up his early game a ton and improving his fights outside of lane. More graves on minions you don't kill with Q, graves for simply whacking a champion or large/epic monster, simple numbers buffs to Q, and a new E debuff that Yorick himself can use, instead of only amplifying his Mist Walkers. On the skill expression side, we're making Yorick care more about his own output (again, Q buffs and E change) while also changing up the rules on Mist Walkers' health. Ultimately, they're more numerous and less damaging late game, but also more resilient to more types of damage, meaning that they can stand and fight against champions a bit more. There are a few bug fixes, especially for Mist Walkers. By changing his summons to care about Yorick's bonuses instead of total stats, any further adjustments to Yorick's base stats won't also affect all his summons, making it easier to have more focused changes in the future. For Maiden, the resulting health is essentially identical, while the other changes are intentionally nerfs in the late game.
EMourning Mist
Yorick is currently overperforming in the jungle and putting camps and enemies into his graves, so we're pulling on one of his jungle damage levers in order to bring him more in line with other junglers.
REulogy of the Isles
Yorick is extremely strong as a jungler, and moderately strong as a laner. We're targeting a nerf at his ability to quickly burn down camps and epic monsters with his ultimate active, which will have some impact on lane Yorick but mostly nerf his ability to speed clear as a jungler.
Riot's data lists 10 looks for Yorick with their own art, the base skin included and 49 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Yorick | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 650 | =26th | 620 |
| Health per level | 114 | =14th | 104 |
| Base armor | 36 | =20th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.5 | =92nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 62 | =50th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.625 | =117th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2% | =119th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 340 | =37th | 335 |
| Attack range | 175 | =87th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 650 | +114 | 2588 | =13th of 173 |
| Mana | 300 | +60 | 1320 | =17th of 145 |
| Armor | 36 | +4.5 | 112.5 | =50th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Yorick, Shepherd of Souls, is a Fighter and Tank champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 6/10 for difficulty, 6/10 for attack, 6/10 for defense and 4/10 for magic. Yorick spends Mana and has 10 skins with their own art.
The last survivor of a long-forgotten religious order, Yorick is both blessed and cursed with power over the dead. Trapped on the Shadow Isles, his only companions are the rotting corpses and shrieking wraiths that he gathers to him. Yorick's monstrous actions belie his noble purpose: to free his home from the curse of the Ruination.
