Yorick/Development

Champion Sneak Peek – Yorick, the Gravedigger
By Average Gatsby

The true sign of a master is when you're able to impress everyone with your execution of a skill that might otherwise be considered mundane. So it's probably quite safe to say that in order to dazzle anyone with your skillful shoveling, you're going to have to be rather good at it.

With this in mind, allow me to introduce, the Gravedigger. In addition to being more adept in the art of entombment than any who have come before him, he makes a point of keeping good - or at least. One of those two.

Yorick Mechanics Preview
By Ryan 'Morello' Scott

Greeting Summoners!

We wanted to give a sneak-peak into 's gameplay in a quick mini-update.

Yorick is our first champion that utilizes the creation and use of. All of Yorick's spells have varying immediate effects, but each leaves behind a different minion of the appropriate type. For example, creates an AOE explosion at the target location that does damage and slows, and leaves behind a. This ghoul will then slow targets adjacent to it during its lifespan. All Ghouls have a constantly draining life bar that limits their lifespan to a short duration, and enemies attacking them will shorten it even more.

Yorick isn't some frail, weak Necromancer that just commands minions though - he's a burly fighter who can dish out punishment on his own. This was done primarily to make his play more consistent (as frail summoners typically have really binary PvP gameplay on if their minions are up or not). Yorick can get into a fight and go toe-to-toe with enemies while commanding an ever-changing army of undead Ghouls.

is his trademark that brings players back from the dead to exact Vengeance. Yorick can use this on an ally, which creates a revenant of that champion. If that champion is killed while the revenant exists, then the target gains temporary undeath, coming back from the dead at full life which drains on its own rapidly. After the risen ally runs out of health again, they collapse once more.

We really hope you enjoy our new master of undeath in the upcoming patch!

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