Talk:Yorick/@comment-26128186-20150427083013/@comment-25364408-20150427142452

Underwhelming? Flask + 3 mana pots > tear at 720 gold > Manamune > IBG > tank depending on the enemy team, and you can waltz up 1v5, get at least 1 kill, and run out unless they have more than 8 seconds of hard CC and/or more than 15 seconds of slows. I will always defend current Yorick.

The only way you should ever lose as Yorick is either someone else feeds an enemy at least 1000 more gold than you have, or you don't have enough experience with him. His early can only be survived by a very small amount of champions, and even less champions can actually beat him in lane. If the jungler hanks after you have Tear + Pickaxe or more, you should easily get a double kill.

Fear no poke, fear no all-in. His sustain is enough to survive a Teemo shroom + Teemo poison + ignite from under 100 HP at level 7 if his E ghoul is on a champion, so poke can't even tickle you. You have no engage beyond walking up, so, when they all-in you, you love it since you can now become their Siamese twin with Q and W.

If you're having trouble in team fights, positioning is probably the issue. You have no engage, but you have so much stick that even LB in URF hates to try to run from you. Use that to your advantage. Bait their hard engage so that it hits you and not your teammates, and proceed to either beat on their face if the rest of your team can't peel, or flash onto the enemy carry's face and get them to half health in one combo.

Heck, take him jungle for the outnumber hanks, or take him bot. I've taken him both support AND technically ADC. I just built him like normal, but with our ADC going solo top instead of me. It was such an easy lane that the only damage we took on our tower was from minions. Heck, take him mid. It's as easy a lane against melee champs as it is top - easier, IMHO, since they're squishy enough to die to a EWQ AA AA QE rather than having to fight for a long time - and works against ranged champs, but doesn't stomp lane like against melees.

He can even work pretty well as a full AD caster, if you roll that way. I'd still personally go typical Yorick.