Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <league-of-legends>
Title: Is there a counter to Yorick?
Question: Is there a counter to Yorick on top?

Answers:
sents: text: Yorick actually has very little means of escaping, so if he is ganked from early on he can be gimped enough to the point where he is not a large threat.
text: He becomes incredibly tanky, so make sure you try to get him early.
text: The later you gank him, the more levels in Omen of Famine he'll have and be much tankier.
text: Once he's level 3 he also will be able to throw up all 3 ghouls for 15% damage reduction making him very tanky.
text: Many champions can lane against him by farming his ghouls.
text: They give no gold, but Tryndamere and Nasus scale better into late game and give them means of gaining strength in lane.
text: Tryndamere gets it by hitting the ghouls for rage buildup and actually end up healing off of his skills from lifesteal and Bloodlust.
text: Nasus gets power by building Siphoning Strike charges off of the ghouls.
text: Source: http://www.lolpro.com/guides/yorick/65-yorick-guide-top-lane/tips-tricks-synergies-and-counters
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/22196/Andrew Henry
score: 4
sents: text: I like to counter Yorick with Cho-Gath, not just because I love Cho but also for these reasons:
text: You can heal of his minions with your passive, they will not do more dmg than your passive heal.
text: 15% damage reduction?
text: OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!
text: If you can get an early gank, you will be way more tankier.
text: If you are able to farm and snowball perfectly you will be way ahead of Yorick.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/29399/Java
score: 4
sents: text: Yorick is annoying due to his ghoul spam.
text: I have seen top lane Warwick deal with him easy because Warwick can sustain himself through Yoricks spam.
text: Also having your jungle keep pressure on him can keep him down a bit as well.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/22393/Agilism
score: 1
sents: text: I have played Rumble against Yorick and it worked out pretty well.
text: I just torched all the ghouls and they weren't too much of a problem.
text: If you can get an early gank on him with your jungler then you can pretty much dominate the lane with so much damage from your torch and harpoon.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/22348/Eric Wurtzbacher
score: 1
sents: text: Trundle-
text: He heals off Yorick's ghouls
text: He can decrease his damage
text: Slow him when hes slowed Reduce
text: the slow Yorick has Awesome 1v1 ultimate.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/29457/panda..x
score: 1
sents: text: I don't know if there are champs that will completely destroy a yorick 1v1, but many have built in sustain not to be destroyed by his ghouls.
text: Nasus, builtin lifesteal makes him a strong choice, Trundle's passive, and Chogath passive make it very difficult for Yorick to push them out of lane.
text: Then when the lane is pushed from the ghoul spamming, just get your jungler to gank and win.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/22193/user22193
score: 0
sents: text: I think Sion is one of the strongest counters to Yorick since he can use Yorick's ghouls against him with Roar of the Slayer (E) by catapulting them into Yorick.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/107176/user107176
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Cho-Gath, Warwick and Sion are good counters to Yorick.
The community refers to some champions and how their skills are countering Yorick, in lane phase.