Our Yorick changes last patch succeeded in re-introducing some more choice into his first slot but failed to strip out as much power as we wanted to. This patch we're continuing to nerf his early strengths in order to give more champions room to fight back against him before completed items come online.

We’re taking aim at Yorick’s late-laning phase spike this patch, where he quickly becomes unassailable until eventually falling off a cliff. We’re reducing the power of this early power spike and lightly returning some of that power into his Mist Walkers very late into the game.

Another patch, another Yorick change! Look, we’re just going for thematically resonant changes at this point. After all, he can’t die. We’re looking to reduce his power level in the jungle a little, as he’s still a bit overboard in that role.

While last patch's Yorick update was largely successful at giving Yorick more access to his Mist Walkers and a fighting chance in the early lane, it also managed to significantly skew him toward the jungle, where he's really overperforming. This follow-up patch is intended to give us better jungle-vs-lane levers so that we can tune him for his separate roles more effectively. We expect these changes to be somewhat power down for jungle Yorick and mostly neutral for his top lane gameplay.

We're delivering a large-scale update to Yorick this patch with two primary goals. First, we'd like to make Yorick better for Yorick players, filling in some of his dead points and making him a more complete champion. Second, we'd like to make him stronger in higher level play, adding some extra skill expression to Yorick and making him more resilient when faced with high-skill opponents. We're also doing some minor adjustments that make Yorick easier to re-tune in the future. More on that later. To make Yorick more self-sufficient and fill in gaps in his gameplay, we're pushing up his early game a ton and improving his fights outside of lane. More graves on minions you don't kill with Q, graves for simply whacking a champion or large/epic monster, simple numbers buffs to Q, and a new E debuff that Yorick himself can use, instead of only amplifying his Mist Walkers. On the skill expression side, we're making Yorick care more about his own output (again, Q buffs and E change) while also changing up the rules on Mist Walkers' health. Ultimately, they're more numerous and less damaging late game, but also more resilient to more types of damage, meaning that they can stand and fight against champions a bit more. There are a few bug fixes, especially for Mist Walkers. By changing his summons to care about Yorick's bonuses instead of total stats, any further adjustments to Yorick's base stats won't also affect all his summons, making it easier to have more focused changes in the future. For Maiden, the resulting health is essentially identical, while the other changes are intentionally nerfs in the late game.

Yorick is currently overperforming in the jungle and putting camps and enemies into his graves, so we're pulling on one of his jungle damage levers in order to bring him more in line with other junglers.

Yorick is extremely strong as a jungler, and moderately strong as a laner. We're targeting a nerf at his ability to quickly burn down camps and epic monsters with his ultimate active, which will have some impact on lane Yorick but mostly nerf his ability to speed clear as a jungler.

Yorick is especially dominant in lower MMR play. It’d be nice if he wasn’t so reliant on his opponents failing to realize they can one-shot my ghouls with any basic attack, so we’re pulling back some Mist Walker damage to make him less reliant on their unreliable damage output.

In her current state, the Maiden of the Mist is currently too tanky against some champions while simultaneously being too squishy into others. Our goal with these changes is to make facing Maiden a more consistent experience for opponents that find themselves matched up against her while also lowering Yorick's overall power which is currently just a tad over the line.

With a bunch of new items to play with we thought that now would be a good time to revitalize Yorick’s classic bruiser builds which should ultimately give him more durability to act as a front liner for his team. While we were at it, we also wanted to take the opportunity to smooth out his playing experience with minor adjustments to his summons.

This patch we’ll be nerfing Yorick's uninteractive blast-you-with-ghouls playstyle so that being caught by one E with lethality builds doesn't end your life. This should bring down the overall power of this frustrating playstyle, but we’ll be keeping an eye out to make sure Yorick isn’t completely underground after these changes.

Yorick's Mist Walkers and Maiden of the Mist are also getting a slight base stat package to help them keep up with the Durability Update. We're also adding a few tweaks to make Yorick's spectral army a bit more ghastly when positioned correctly. Namely, the Maiden won't wander too far when moving toward marked targets.

Well, we did it. We woke Yorick up and brought him back to life… and right over the balance line. To mitigate, we’re following up his patch 11.6 buffs by walking back some of his damage—but we don’t want to leave him back in the dirt. So we’re also adding the second part of his intended changes to help his Maiden stay alive. Instead of constantly trying to keep her out of harm’s way, our premier split pusher can now focus on destroying turrets with his minions of the Mist.

Yorick is usually able to crush his way through average play, but recently, he's fallen behind. In addition to his absence from higher-tier games, he has room for a buff to help him across levels of play, so we're taking a first pass by making his E more satisfying and effective. Coupled with some QoL adjustments, this should help our shepherd feel less wretched, while also evening out his performance in higher levels of play.