User blog comment:Emptylord/Red Posts/Xelnath's Yorick Rework/@comment-26992220-20150916174225/@comment-5955640-20150917000827

Don't think of these as nerfs or buffs but reworks. The general idea was to create a way for Yorick to make a stronger personal impact with his ghosts while not being this overbearing monster in lane.

Yorick being able to sustain himself and his harass with just a tear meant you were in for a toxic phase that required jungle camping.

His ult lacks utility and complexity and the reward if very low despite it's misuse cost being very high.

In the end though all of this data is out of date and none of these kits will be implimented as it got passed onto a different designer which can mean an entirely different sort of champ. Curiously, Yorick was looking to be a bottom laner not unlike Mordeksaier is right now.