Yorick's Rework: Was It A Failure? | League of Legends

Welcome back to another episode of the Rework Retrospective series! Today we're gonna be discussing Yorick: The Sheppard of Souls. Arguably the LEAST played champion of all time in his previous iteration and... kind of still the same with his current one too. Was it a failed rework?

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He's obviously not a 100% flawless rework, but I think he provides the players with a very niche style of gameplay. That's also why he is very unpopular. The only failure, in my opinion, is how much of a low elo stomper he is, and how hard he falls off in mid-high elo. I may also count the fact that out of all splitpushers he's definitely the easiest one to catch, since he has no escape. Also fuck Ruination, they did him so dirty

[robertcrane]

Loved Yorick at release and still love him now. As far as mains go, there are dozens of us... DOZENS

[tolis]

I dont think he has low playrate because he is bad or badly designed it think it is because it takes a specific mindset/personaloty to play him. Take smash bros for example jigglypiff and lucario while not the best characters arent trash or something but have very low playrates because you need a very different mindset to play them than the rest of the roster

[TwitterVS]

old Yorick was way worse from a gameplay design perspective and 100% needed his rework but at the same time. I miss the mindless fun of just spamming ghouls on people as old yorick. definitely not a kit that should have existed in a competitive game but his old kit was good dumb fun

[ocacharro]

Back in the day, I was a Yorick main, I REALLY miss him. League lacks a summoner like yorick, he was a such unique champion, I feel so sad to remember the there's not a single champ similar to the old one. Also, nowdays you don't see that many manamune users anymore.

[Nikolai]

The old Yoric used to be one of my most played champions, as ive got a sweet spot for summoners, with old Yoric specifically being what I would call a "minionmancer". His whole concept of utilising varied minions doesnt exist anymore. The new Yorik is more like a melee Azir, focusing on manipulating one kind of minion instead of a variety of them. Add to that that his minions arent available at a moments notice anymore unless you have your maiden ready.

I personally prefer the old one, though I must unfortunately admit that his current iteration is more fair to play against.

[albanybestdrumline]

I miss the old days of “yorick walks into a bar there was no counter”

[ZeroGoofs]

The thing that was really cool about OG yorick to me was how unique his ghouls were. You felt like a god of death because you have control over these different types of undead creatures. The current “mist walkers” are soulless and uninspired, they don’t make me want to play the champion at all anymore.


Hell I’d argue Bard accomplishes the personal minions mini game better as well

[sevenatenine]

Who is Yorick? I'm still looking through the Ruination story for him.

[JesusEffingChrist]

What i remember old Yorick for the most, was being the ultimate Teemo counter. If you were Teemo, and the enemy picked Yorick, you may aswell dodge on the spot.

[robertrubas]

For me it's a no, i never played the old one but i LOVE how satisfying is his minion and push advantage. He is extremely safe in lane, very few characters can bully him hard and make him feed, even then, it doesn't really matter as he gets so much more farm than the others, quickly evening the disadvantage. Plus i really don't mind and kinda like the heavy setup gameplay, it makes you reconsider what you can do in every situation and plan ahead, and when you do. Also the feeling of being an unkillable monster with maiden, or leaving her just at the right time so the enemy is thorn between the teamfight or losing half their base, is something no other character gives. (He reminds me of azmodan from hots, which was one of my mains, probably the reason i like him so much)

[LMNtSirSpinoza]

I was the only Yorick player pre-rework. I loved the kit. I wish they’d rework him and go back to something similar to the old one or make a new champ that summons.

[SeuchenPflug]

Old Yorick was so damn viable in an organised team while the new Yorick is just a low elo meme like Nasus, who is only as good as the items that are meta

[Chaoslordx]

I loved old yorick, biggest lane bully in the game

[SaiKisaragi]

Yorwick is the saddest character in League. Gets a rework, still bad, forgotten lore. Got to be in the ruination, but due to the forgotten lore, he doesn’t get to do anything. What a sad fate.

[Mori-man]

I think it sounds like what old yorick needed was to be forced to choose a ghoul type. Maybe by ability cast all ghouls for the next 10 seconds will be of that type for example. so he doesn't get them all just chooses between catching, draintanking, or the last one I forgot

[hidesidehs]

Thats one hell of narrow reasoning.

First of all, he can still summon his army on command with ult. Secondly, he is now much more interactive than he was. Anything is better than old Yorick for a reason. Also him having the ghouls is his identity, so problems tied to that are withing the expectation. To be accurate, new yorick, is old Yorick with actual kit. His ability to summon ghouls got tied to minions and he has Maiden now but thats about it. Just this makes him success by default.

[occ]

He’s one of my favorite champions bar none alongside Taliyah. Champs that are different from the standard of their peers are just more fun for me idk why. He also just has one of the coolest designs in the game and I love his voice actors deliveries.

[Horrosity]

I tried the old Yorick when I heard that he was going to get reworked. Man, he was insane. I ended up taking him to ranked games and solo killed every junglers. He helped me get to gold

[okidoxb]

Ya wanna know WHY Yorick struggled to become meta? Bc he's kneecapped with tons of bugs, inconsistent interactions (runes/items), and Riot nerfed him straight out the gate for low lvl play, making minions HP weak to AA, etc. As a mainly single target target juggernaut whose power budget is geared towards split pushing he's really not a popular pick due to his lower than average teamfight ability AND the fact that splitpushing isn't a super accessible strategy to pull off. And riot doesn't seems like they are looking to do much about his bugs, interaction consistency, or initial low rank nerfs.

Yorick still has defense in the form of using Wall to trap people, they could afford to buff his MS steal on E ig to make it easier for him to chase, but paired with his wall, if he lands E he's likely to keep the target where he wants to wail on them with Q+AA

buffing his ability to call ghouls is tricky bc the original goal WAS to make it not as consistent, so ig the path is to siphon more power out of ghouls into himself