Talk:Yorick/@comment-81.251.72.138-20120715111100/@comment-15562896-20120716071351

Riven and Renekton can actually win their lane against Yorick because of their high mobility + huge early game damage, Yorick will either have to build Tears and stay relatively squishy while most other solotops would get some armor, or get straight Glacial shroud but then still have mana issues which would also be a problem in that kind of lane where a smart opponent will abuse the fact that Yorick is out of mana.

They can easily abuse brushes and Renekton can get some more health back thanks to ghouls if he hits them (which happens very often) with his Q, riven can just kite them, cleave them through AoE spell, or, most likely, shield all of their damage.

Yorick is a bit overrated but I've been playing a few games where I maxed Q first for fun and actually this worked incredibly well, I wonder why everyone maxes E first, not like you need all this additional sustain.