Hey everyone! Today's Weird Pick Wednesday brings back an oldie but a goodie, a personal favorite of mine, support Yorick! As a support main and former Yorick main, I support this message.
Introduction
Hey everyone! Today's Weird Pick Wednesday brings back an oldie but a goodie, a personal favorite of mine, support Yorick! As a support main and former Yorick main, I support this message...just not in ranked.
How to Play
Runes: Flat Attack Damage Quints, Flat Attack Damage Reds, Flat Mana Regen Yellows, Magic Resist Blues
Masteries: 0-9-21, Standard Support Masteries
Abilities: E, W, E, Q then prioritize R > E > W > Q
Core items: Face of the Mountain, Sightstone, Manamune, Iceborn Gauntlet, Frozen Heart
Masteries: 0-9-21, Standard Support Masteries
Abilities: E, W, E, Q then prioritize R > E > W > Q
Core items: Face of the Mountain, Sightstone, Manamune, Iceborn Gauntlet, Frozen Heart
Why It Works
Strong Early to Mid Game HarassWith his insanely short cooldowns and extreme harassing potential, Yorick performs well in a poke type role or as an all-in role. His built-in sustain also allows him to trade efficiently and heal back up to full via his relic shield and E health.
Strong Ultimate
Similar to Zilean, Yorick's ultimate allows your team to make sure your AD carry can come back to life ready to take down the enemy team again. However, unlike Zilean, Yorick's ultimate can also be used for a quick burst of damage late game at 75% of the ally's AD.
Skillshot Blocking Power
Against supports like Thresh and Blitzcrank, there's nothing more satisfying than successfully saving your ally from getting hooked by instantly putting down a ghoul in the path of an incoming line. In any case, in most 2v2 situations, even if you do get hooked, Yorick is tanky enough to out-trade them in a melee range with his ghoul spam.
Similar to Zilean, Yorick's ultimate allows your team to make sure your AD carry can come back to life ready to take down the enemy team again. However, unlike Zilean, Yorick's ultimate can also be used for a quick burst of damage late game at 75% of the ally's AD.
Skillshot Blocking Power
Against supports like Thresh and Blitzcrank, there's nothing more satisfying than successfully saving your ally from getting hooked by instantly putting down a ghoul in the path of an incoming line. In any case, in most 2v2 situations, even if you do get hooked, Yorick is tanky enough to out-trade them in a melee range with his ghoul spam.
Potential Pitfalls
Yorick is innately a low CC champion. Even after picking up his iceborn gauntlet, he effectively has no way to stop any channeled spells, nor does he have an effective engagement technique. Late game, he's mostly an ult bot, and depending on how well your AD carry farmed and did in lane, this can be a very hit or miss type of scenario.
Conclusions
Yorick support is definitely a very satisfying role to play, and is fun when it works. However, his lack of any hard CC or channeling interruption ability does keep him far down on the priority pick list. Whereas some other supports without CC like Gangplank make up for it via team buffs and massive AOE slows, Yorick does rely a bit too much on someone else doing something useful.
Suggested Rating: Mid to Low Tier 4