Talk:Yorick/@comment-26380451-20150514114020/@comment-25364408-20150516153703

Play as him a few times and you should understand how to not dedd.

If he spams all his ghouls on a minion early game, the only one he can reliably have back up as soon as his current ones die is his Q, and even that has quite a delay. If he ghouls you, proceed to cry. But if he's OOM, he's about as useless as an OOM APC early game. Most don't see his counterplay due to their annoyance of "UGH I JUST TOOK A FIFTH OF MY HEALTH WITH NO COUNTERPLAY," and forget that his ghouls are his power.

If you're voice chatting with your jungler would be easier:

Get your jungler to wait in the bush until his abilities are on cooldown and the ghouls are dead, and jump him with CC early game. If he doesn't have his Pickaxe yet, he is no threat without his abilities. If he escapes with just a few HP, don't chase unless you have a ranged ability, as he is just waiting out his cooldowns, and can turn quite well, even at low HP.

Also, poking him is useless, as is engaging when he has all his abilities. Heck, unless you have a ton of CC, it's even hard to engage even when he only has Q, as he can just Q and run away. But, again, if he has non of his abilities and non of his ghouls, CC his bum do redeath with at least one other person and proceed to kill him withing the 4-1 second window you have. A TF or Annie can just ignore him in lane, as their CC + burst can just decimate him so hard.