Talk:Yorick/@comment-26875630-20151012211032/@comment-25364408-20151012214706

His counterplay is that he requires his spells to be able to fight you, and he has decently high CDs early game. Taking advantage of his CDs or him being oom is how you kill a Yorick in lane. Renekton, Rengar, Wukong, Pantheon, etc. are able to counter him pretty effectively in lane if they get in and do things to him and get out while his abilities are on CD before they come back up. Champs like Nasus, Garen, Malphite, etc. that can't easily jump on his face, without blowing high CDs in the face of Malph, can't really do anything against him in lane.

And his mana costs are already high enough. He cannot live without tear.