Yorick Top build for patch 16.11, generated from current-patch ranked Emerald+ games. Below: comp-aware build path, runes, top 10 bans for the matchup, and how Yorick wins.
Yorick is an AD juggernaut in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 51.7% win rate, 3.9% pick rate, 45,811 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Yorick is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.
How Yorick wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 10/10 split-push, 8/10 waveclear. Play around where Yorick is thin, engage and teamfighting (3/10, 3/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, which holds a 61.2% win rate across 1,477 games this patch. Pick the enemy team to adapt each item slot to the specific matchup.
The matchup to respect is Zeri, where Yorick sits at just 43.7%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (59.5%), and on the team side, Yorick gains the most from a Karthus (+8.4% pair win rate).
Yorick's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Yorick Top's worst matchups on patch 16.11, ranked by how often they win the lane. Ban these to smooth the game out.
Champions whose presence raises Yorick's win rate most as Top, by pair WR delta over Yorick's solo performance.
Yorick is also played in this other role this patch.
Drafting a whole team? The Team Builder coaches all 10 picks at once. Want Yorick's current standing? Open the Tier List.