Yorick/Trivia

General

 * Yorick, is currently the only champion removed from the free champion rotation.
 * Yorick is currently the only champion to have been removed from the free champion rotation but not the sale rotation.
 * Yorick is the first champion to be released before his champion spotlight, mainly due to Phreak being delayed on a flight back from in Sweden.
 * Yorick has one of the most varied skillsets in the game, with an auto-attack modifier, a ground targeted AoE, an enemy targeted instant-cast and an allied targeted instant-cast. Among these are both controllable and incontrollable pets.
 * Yorick and are the only champions to have both Automatic and Controllable pets.
 * Yorick is one of the four champions to have abilities which allow them to continue to attack after death. Yorick's ability being and the others being,  and.
 * However, Yorick is the only champion to have his ability to reanimate after death not be his passive.
 * Yorick's ghost is temporarily coded as a champion, so killing it would count as a champion kill. This only works however if the real champion has already died.
 * Yorick's job as a ferryman for the Shadow Isles's undead denizens is a reference to the Psychopomp who are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife.

Development
"'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!'"
 * Yorick's is from 's play , in which Yorick is a deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by a gravedigger. The line comes from Act 5, Scene 1:
 * Yorick's ability names are references to the.
 * In 2013, Yorick had a Champion Update in the works which was being done by Alexander "Xelnath" Brazie. The status of the old work-in-progress kit can be found here. Eventually, Alexander had had more projects on his table, which were higher priority (Such as the 2014 Preseason), so he put Yorick's update on hold.
 * However, in 2015, after the pod of Rioters who were working on Poppy were nearly done with her Visual & Gameplay Update, they started working on an update for Yorick (In a scope similar to Poppy's update), and if everything goes as planned, Riot Meddler claims Yorick newest update is scheduled for release before pre-season 7.

Lore

 * In his splash art, Yorick stands on a tomb with "MORI" engraved. Mori is Yorick's family's surname, and has meanings relating to death or dying in several languages.
 * "" is a Latin phrase that was mostly used in medieval Europe that means "Remember, thou art mortal". It is the most common phrase that uses the word "mori".
 * His quote "You will remember Yorick Mori." is a clear reference to the very same phrase.
 * In his original splash art, his shovel has a crest with a "Y" going through an "M" likely referring to his initials for Yorick Mori.

Quotes

 * The West Altar's quote "Alas, poor Yorick" is a reference to Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"
 * Yorick's quote at champion select "Death is only the beginning" is a reference to lord Blackwood during his execution from the movie "Sherlock Holmes (2009)"
 * The East Altar's quote "Bring out your dead!" is a reference to the corpse-carts from the time of the Black Plague, made famous by Monty Python's film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
 * shares a quote with, "I will bury you alive."

Skins

 * It is a reference to a, a professional in the business of funeral rites.
 * It is a reference to a, a professional in the business of funeral rites.


 * The skin itself is heavily modeled after, the former guitarist of .
 * The skin changes his dance, as he does not spin his weapon during the dance, but rather lifts his hand up and makes a sign with his hand (The same hand sign the ghoul makes in his old Pentakill splash art).
 * Yorick shares this theme with, , and.
 * Yorick shares this theme with, , and.

Relations

 * Yorick serves as a ferryman for the Shadow Isles's undead denizens, helping them climb death's many-tiered ladder.
 * Yorick was first sighted near a Demacian town near Bubbling Bog, prior stated that a new Pentakill member is coming.
 * Yorick is a member of the Pentakill (Band), along with, , and . According to the Journal of Justice, the metal band is successful across Valoran.