Yorick

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).