Yorick vs Gwen Counter Pick

Yorick loses this matchup mainly because of his health pool. He ends up with 2,588 health, the bigger figure in this pairing, and A Thousand Cuts takes its bonus magic damage from the target’s current health while returning part of that damage as healing to Gwen. The stat that usually keeps him alive is the one working against him, and across 534 games on 16.13.1 Yorick wins 44.8% of the time.

Hallowed Mist creates the second problem. Anything outside its radius gets no protection for Gwen, so Mist Walkers hovering at the boundary and the Maiden of the Mist are both neutralized until they move inside, and summoned units cannot be told to do that. One placement shuts down both a passive and an ultimate.

Armor follows the same pattern. Gwen begins with 39 armor against Yorick’s 36 and climbs to 122.3 by level 18, while he reaches 112.5, so Last Rites and Mourning Mist hit targets with more armor than they remove. Both fighters do mixed damage, so no single resistance item settles the fight, and Grievous Wounds becomes more significant than normal since both champions rely on healing: Last Rites restores health to Yorick on his empowered attack, and Gwen gets resources back with every basic attack. Skip ‘n Slash adds a dash and a temporary increase in attack range, and a 175 base range has no good answer to that. Its difficulty rating is 5 against 6.