Talk:Yorick/@comment-24055932-20131120013647/@comment-15244341-20131126180302

He is not what most people like aesthetically (biggest one, most likely). He has not a kit that says "make plays!" like Lee Sin. His laning fase is pretty unexciting unless you are some sort of terrible person that loves seeing people leave lane at level 4 (which I personally am). He also is hideously weak to ganks pre level 6 since he pushes like a boss when he harasses and is pretty terrible at escaping with weak CC and a fairly conditional movespeed boost. This adds up to a "you must like the champion to think about playing him". Also, as a sidenote, no counter does not mean you get to be 5/0 at the end of laning fase. When Yorick wins lane he has one kill or so, good CS and the enemy laner has no CS at all and might have died. Compare that to Riven, who will mash your brains each time you show up in lane if she gets ahead.

He also has no real counterplay as for "in lane" matchups. The counterplay is ganking him to hell and back. The joke "Yorick doesn't drink, because whenever he walks into a bar there is no counter" is both awesome and sort of true. Your best bet is sustaining trough his harass, which means Trundle (he never gets to duel Yorick because there is no reason for Yorick to do so) or Cho (who needs tankyness to survive well enough). Maybe Aatrox, but I've never faced one in lane nor do I play him so I can't tell. The trouble is that Yorick plays the Singed game. He has no reason to fight, so he does not (a playstyle not many people enjoy, so there is another reason). If you engage, he runs and heals the damage while hurting you. If you are low and he gets a gank, he might pick a kill. All this while zoning you.

Also, you can't just pick Yorick and go to town. He works in teamcomps with reset champions and hypercarries. He himself has low damage output (solid DPS, though) and mediocre CC. His ult is also really hard to time properly. If the temacomp is not ideal your lane would have benefited more from a damage character (Jax, Riven) or a tank (Shen, Nasus, Malphite) than Yorick (not bad a tanking, not great at damage, worse than those guys at it).