Yorick is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities[]
- No additional notes.
Howling Abyss differences edit
- Deaths required for a grave changed to 5 at all levels.
- New Effect: Now spawns a grave at a random location within 600 units every 8 seconds.
- Ghoul attack damage AD ratio changed to 15% AD.
- Ghoul health changed to 70% value.
- Notes
- No additional notes.
- Notes
- Awakening counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as
Spellblade and triggering passive.
- Mist Walkers update their statistics correspondingly to Yorick's during the periodic stat update, with the exception of their maximum health.
- Awakening cannot be cast without enough graves in range.
- Dark Procession has a
turret prioritization value of 6, equal to that of .
- Yorick's other
pets each have a lower prioritization value, allowing him to delay the turret from targeting the or a Mist Walker for one attack.
- Yorick's other
- Dark Procession deals 0
proc
true damage to enemies it knocks aside, which triggers in-combat effects such as drawing turret and monster aggression, or applying .
- The perimeter is made up of 18 units with 100
pathing radius and 20
gameplay radius each.
- Repeatedly while the cage persists, all enemy
champions inside it become marked for Yorick to gain an
assist on them should they perish within the standard 10 seconds assist time.
- Yorick will snap his facing direction towards the target location at the start of the cast time.
- The speed boost toward marked targetes does not require
sight of them.
- The Mist Walkers do not
leap if they are
immobilized or
grounded, or if the marked target is
untargetable.
- See the Pets section below for more details about The Maiden of the Mist and Mist Walkers.
- The extra Mist Walkers spawn 250 units from the Maiden summon location.
- The Maiden updates her stats when Yorick's stats change, and as Eulogy of the Isles is ranked up.
- When Yorick dies, The Maiden rapidly loses portions of her maximum health over 3 seconds until she dies.
- The loss of maximum health occurs in 0.6-second intervals, in which she loses 20% on the first, 25% on the second, 33.3% on the third, 50% on the fourth, and 100% on the fifth.
- Yorick will snap his facing direction towards the target location at the start of the cast time.
Pets[]
Control type | Autonomous |
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Target type | ![]() |
On-hit effects | Mist Walkers' attacks are mitigated by ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spell effects | Mist Walkers' basic attacks apply spell effects as ![]() |
Protection |
Mist Walkers take 50% damage from |
Abilities
Mist Walkers remain near Yorick (preferably 200 units behind him) until they enter combat in a lane, whereupon they proceed along the lane and attack any enemy in their path.
While in a 1400-radius of While Mist Walkers are within a
Unlike other |
Control type | Autonomous |
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Target type | ![]() |
On-hit effects | The Maiden of the Mist's attacks are mitigated by ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spell effects | The Maiden of the Mist's basic attacks apply spell effects as ![]() |
Protection |
The Maiden of the Mist takes 30% damage from |
Abilities
The Maiden of the Mist regenerates 2.5 health per second.
The Maiden of the Mist is permanently
The Maiden of the Mist's attacks mark her target (except structures) for X seconds, refreshing the duration with every attack. Yorick's next basic attack, or hit against a unit with the mark will consume it to deal 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health bonus magic damage, capped at 100 against
While there are fewer than 4 Mist Walkers under the Maiden of the Mist's command, she raises another Mist Walker each time a nearby enemy dies.
While nearby While the Maiden of the Mist is within a
Unlike other pets, the Maiden of the Mist is not prioritized by turrets over any type of |
Champion skins[]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Yorick (Collection).




Patch history[]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- New Effect: Maiden's attacks now apply ultimate effects (i.e. Hatefog).
- Bonus ghoul damage reduced to 20% from 30%.
- Maiden armor increased to 30 − 90 (based on level) from 10 − 50 (based on level).
- Maiden magic resistance increased to 30 − 90 (based on level) from 10 − 50 (based on level).
- Removed: No longer takes 50% damage from area spells.
- Bug Fix: Maiden's percent maximum health damage no longer incorrectly bypasses
block.
- Summon leash range reduced to 1600 from 2000.
- New Effect: Summons now gain bonus movement speed when returning to him. This movement speed bonus is based on the distance between Yorick and the summon.
- Removed: Heal is no longer doubled when below 50% health.
- New Effect: Heal now scales with 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8% missing health.
- New Effect: Heal is halved against non-champions.
- Mana cost reduced to 20 from 25.
- Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.33.
- Bonus damage against marked targets reduced to 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health from 3 / 6 / 9%.
- Mark damage cap against monsters reduced to 100 at all ranks from 200 / 300 / 400.
- Removed: Mark damage no longer has a 2 second cooldown.
- General
- Now replaces with .
- Now replaces with .
- Maiden base health changed to 400 − 1650 (based on level) from 350 / 1100 / 3300.
- Maiden health ratio reduced to 60% of Yorick's maximum health from 75%.
- New Effect: The Maiden now has 10 − 50 (based on level) armor and magic resistance.
- New Effect: The Maiden now regenerates 2.5 health per second.
- Bug Fix: Damage of Mist Walker leap attacks from and basic attacks no longer incorrectly apply life steal.
- Bonus ghoul damage reduced to 30% from 40%.
- Bug Fix: No longer draws minion aggro when use a leap attack against an enemy champion.
- Mist Walker base health increased to 110 − 212 (based on level) from 100 − 185 (based on level).
- Mist Walker health ratio increased to 20% of Yorick's maximum health from 15%.
- Mist Walker base movement speed increased to 325 from 300.
- Maiden of the Mist chase range reduced to 1200 units from 1600.
- Maiden of the Mist base health increased to 350 / 1100 / 3300 from 300 / 1000 / 3000.
- Maiden of the Mist health ratio increased to 75% of Yorick's maximum health from 70%.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 650 from 580.
- Health growth increased to 114 from 100.
- Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
- Base heal reduced to 10 − 68 (based on level) from 12 − 82 (based on level).
- Bug Fix: Fixed minor VFX inconsistencies.
- Bug Fix: Fixed minor VFX inconsistencies.
- Bug Fix: Maiden of the Mist now properly displays an icon on the minimap.
- Bug Fix: Maiden of the Mist and Ghouls now properly disappear when the caster dies.
- New Effect: Maiden now gains
ghosting while active.
- New Effect: Maiden now gains
- Bug Fix: AP ratio is now properly displayed in the tooltip.
- New Effect: Now trigger spell effects when dealing damage.
- V11.8 - April 13th Hotfix
- Bug Fix: Towers now properly prioritize damaging Yorick's Maiden instead of minions when she attacks enemy champions while Yorick is not in the tower's range.
- Mist Walker base attack damage reduced to 2 − 88 (based on level) from 2 − 99 (based on level).
- Mist Walker AD ratio reduced to 25% AD from 30% AD.
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the proper amount of health Mist Walkers are summoned with.
- Removed: Mist Walkers no longer deal 100% bonus damage on their attack after leaping to champions and large monsters.
- New Effect: Marked enemies now take 40% bonus damage for 8 attacks from Mist Walkers for the duration of the debuff.
- New Effect: Turrets now prioritize minions over the Maiden of the Mist.
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the ring was a valid target for if greater than 3000 units away.
- New Effect: Marked enemy champions and large monsters now continuously Awaken nearby graves (up to the maximum of 4).
- New Effect: Mist Walkers now deal 200% damage when they leap to marked enemy champions and large monsters.
- Targeting type changed to Location Clamped from Area.
- If targeting outside of range, now immediately casts to max range, instead of walking into target range to cast.
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- Bug Fix: No longer automatically moves above him when he recalls.
- Stats
- Mana growth increased to 60 from 40.
- Bug Fix: Maiden of the Mist now properly triggers .
- General
- Recommended items now includes jungle items if the player has equipped.
- Bug Fix: Mist Walkers are now able to properly activate .
- Maiden leash distance reduced to 600 units from 900.
- New Effect: Large monsters that die near Yorick now leave a grave.
- New Effect: Mist Walkers now take 50% damage from monsters.
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for .
- New Effect: Now triggers effects that are triggered by pets (i.e. on-ability-hit effects). It is also classified as basic attacks.
- Maiden of the Mist base damage reduced to 0 / 10 / 40 from 10 / 20 / 40.
- Bonus damage against Maiden of the Mist's target reduced to 3 / 6 / 9% of target's maximum health from 5 / 7.5 / 10%.
- V9.2 - January 28th Hotfix
- Bug Fix: Cooldown no longer resets if the Maiden dies the instant Yorick sets her free.
- Removed: Ghouls no longer deal 60% reduced damage when they are too far from Yorick.
- Deaths required for a grave reduced to 12 / 6 / 2 (based on level) from 12 / 8 / 4 (based on level).
- ARAM-Specific Balancing: Deaths required for a grave reduced to 2 from 4.
- Mist Walker kill gold reduced to
2 from
5.
- Bug Fix: Mist Walkers and the Maiden no longer sometimes fail to target an enemy hit by Mourning Mist.
- Removed: Maiden of the Mist no longer deal 33.3% reduced damage when she is too far from Yorick.
- Maiden of the Mist base health reduced to 300 / 1000 / 3000 from 700 / 1500 / 4000.
- Maiden of the Mist health ratio increased to 70% of Yorick's maximum health from 30%.
- New Effect: The Maiden no longer begins autonomously pushing a lane when far from Yorick. Instead, she'll leash back to him. While following Yorick, the Maiden of the Mist will leash back to Yorick if he moves 900 units away from her.
- New Effect: After 10 seconds, Eulogy of the Isles can be recasted to set the Maiden free, but can't get her back once he does. She'll push the nearest lane until she dies.
- V8.23 - November 21st Hotfix
- General
- Bug Fix: Mistwalkers and The Maiden no longer draw minion aggro onto Yorick if they damage an enemy champion. The turret aggro portion of the fix is still in place.
- General
- Bug Fix: Mistwalkers and The Maiden now draw minion and turret aggro onto Yorick if they damage an enemy champion.
- V8.21 - October 25th Hotfix
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Mistwalkers were dealing less damage than intended.
- Mist Walker base attack damage changed to 2 − 99 (based on level) from 2 − 100 (based on level).
- General
- Mist Walkers and the Maiden now update their stats when Yorick's stats change.
- Cooldown reduced to 7 / 6.25 / 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 seconds from 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5.
- Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 62 from 65.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 65 from 57.
- Base armor increased to 39 from 30.
- New Effect: Can now affects turrets.
- New Effect: Ghouls now immediately attack upon dash.
- Ghoul base damage changed to 2 − 100 (based on level) from 10 − 95 (based on level).
- Mourning Mist reaction radius increased to 1400 from 1000.
- Grave despawn range increased to 2000 from 1600.
- Cooldown reduced to 160 / 130 / 100 seconds from 160 / 150 / 140.
- Maiden health increased to 700 / 1500 / 4000 from 700 / 1500 / 3000.
- Removed: Ghouls killed increasing the minion killed stat.
- Removed: Walls destroyed increasing the minion killed stat.
- New Effect: Mist Walkers no longer perish when they move too far away from Yorick or the .
- New Effect: If it kills a unit when Yorick has max graves, the furthest grave will now be replaced rather than no grave being spawned.
- New Effect: The Maiden's stats now increase when Yorick puts another skill point into Eulogy of the Isles, rather than remaining unchanged until Yorick summons her again.
- Bug Fix: Lifesteal no longer applies when hitting the wall.
- Bug Fix: When the empowered basic attack crits, the basic attack portion of the damage is now properly modified, rather than the bonus damage.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it consumed as intended, but dealt damage anyway.
- Yorick once again walks into range to cast Dark Procession, rather than casting it at max range in the target direction.
- If Yorick summons the Maiden inside of a lane, she'll start pushing that lane.
- General
- Mistwalkers and the Maiden will now teleport with Yorick if they were following him (does not occur if they were pushing a lane).
- Threshold for summoning graves set to 4 on Howling Abyss.
- Will now cast at his maximum range if Dark Procession is cast outside of its maximum range.
- Removed: Minions marking. Now only marks champions and monsters.
- Full Relaunch
- Title changed to the Shepherd of Lost Souls from the Gravedigger.
- Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
- New splash artwork for and .
- Adjusted splash artwork for .
- New voiceover.
- New lore.
- New I
- The Cursed Horde: Yorick can have up to four Mist Walkers in his service at once. Mist Walkers decay if they move too far from either Yorick or the Maiden of the Mist.
- Final Service: A grave is occasionally created when enemy minions or neutral monsters die near Yorick, and all enemy champions that die near him leave a grave.
- - New Q
- Active: Yorick's next basic attack deals bonus damage and restores some health. If Last Rites kills a target, it creates a grave. If there are at least three graves nearby and Last Rites is on cooldown, Yorick can instead cast to raise Mist Walkers from the graves.
- - New W
- Active: Yorick summons a destructible wall of corpses that encircles a target area for a few seconds.
- - New E
- Active: Yorick hurls a globule of Mist that deals magic damage, applies a slow, and marks a target. Yorick and Mist Walkers get a movement bonus when heading toward marked targets.
- - New R
- Active: Yorick summons the Maiden of the Mist with her own personal Mist Walkers. The Maiden moves and attacks on her own. When Yorick attacks the Maiden's target, he'll deal bonus magic damage based on the enemy's maximum health.
- The Maiden of the Mist takes 30% damage from
lane minions.
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Trivia[]
- Yorick is named after the deceased court jester from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
- His surname Mori references the Latin phrase memento mori "be mindful of dying", befitting his association with death and lost souls.
- Due to David 'Phreak' Turley being delayed on a flight back from DreamHack (Sweden) Yorick became the first champion to be released before his 'Champion Spotlight'.
- Yorick's ability names are references to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- His current weapon is based on the Chinese monk's spade.
- One of his scrapped narrative direction was that he was actually but he had something similar to amnesia and wasn't even aware of it.
- At the very beginning of his release, one of his quotes in brazilian portuguese for casting was "Gostou da minha amiga? O nome dela é Isolde (Do you like my friend? Her name is Isolde)". It was removed shortly after.