New peak at the upcoming League Of Legends champion Yorick, The Gravedigger.

Yorick is one of the three new champions riot announced to be released at E3. Being a huge fan of zombie movies, zombie games, zombie comics, zombie anything... I have been looking forward to this one. Once we got the word of some new champions coming out and seen a Gravedigger, I told a friend "If this dude summons zombies, he's ganna be my new main." And what do you know...Riot just gave us all a peak on some screenshots that I'm sharing with you guys. I was expecting Yorick to get release later this month, but seeing how they already posted the lore and a couple screenshots we all should be expecting him maybe this up coming week?

Yorick, The Gravedigger

I'm guessing this one will be the Omen Of War.

This should be the Omen Of Pestilence.

This one should be the Omen Of Famine.

First of all, he looks great and I will have a fun time learning him. After seeing these screenshots of Yorick I am definitely going to spend multiple hours perfecting him, and hopefully soon I will be posting video gameplay and guide for him and other champions. If everything goes correctly I will be posting video guides with commentary within the next couple of weeks. Keep checking in for guides on your favorite champions.

Abilities:

Omen of War: Yorick’s next attack will deal bonus physical damage and summon a Spectral Ghoul that deals additional damage and moves faster than Yorick’s other ghouls. While the Spectral Ghoul is alive, Yorick moves faster as well.

Omen of Pestilence: Yorick summons a Decaying Ghoul that arrives with a violent explosion, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies. While the Decaying Ghoul remains alive, nearby enemies continue to be slowed.

Omen of Famine: Yorick steals life from his target and summons a Ravenous Ghoul that heals Yorick for the damage it deals.

Omen of Death (Ultimate): Yorick conjures a revenant in the image of one of his allies. If his ally dies while its revenant is alive, the revenant sacrifices itself to reanimate them and give them time to enact vengeance.

Unholy Covenant (Passive): Yorick’s attacks deal more damage for each summon that is active. Meanwhile, Yorick’s ghouls deal some percent of Yorick’s Attack Damage and have some percent of his total health.

Here is the lore for Yorick for all of you nerds!

The work of gravediggers is essential amongst the living, but invaluable in the Shadow Isles. There are many shades of death there, and each is embraced rather than feared or reviled. One can only ascend from one state to the next with the magical aid of a skilled professional. At the end of the first Rune War, Yorick Mori made his living as a gravedigger. His family owned and maintained the Final Rest Memorial, one of the oldest cemeteries in Valoran. The shovel he employed for his work had been passed down for generations. Each gravedigger taught his son that this shovel was imbued with the spirit of every forefather, and that those spirits would protect him during the long lonely nights amongst the tombstones. To his eternal regret, Yorick died without an heir, bringing the proud Mori line to a close. His body was interred with his shovel in the family mausoleum, and the Final Rest Memorial soon fell to ruin. Death, however, was not the end Yorick had expected.

Yorick emerged on the haunted shores of the Shadow Isles – not quite dead, definitely not alive – still clutching his beloved shovel. He soon learned that with it he could act as a ferryman for the Isles’ undead denizens, helping them climb death’s many-tiered ladder. This proved a curse, as a gravedigger must “bury his quota” before he too can ascend, or so the legend goes. No one knows what “his quota” is. Yorick dug tirelessly, waiting in vain for the day when he would be freed of his burden. As decades turned to centuries, the shame of his failures came to a head. He returned to Valoran to find his corpse, convinced that salvation might be buried with it. When he arrived, no trace remained of either the mausoleum or the memorial. Hope nearly lost, he discovered the League of Legends, and there saw an opportunity to immortalize the family name he allowed to be forgotten ages ago.

“Die first, then we’ll talk.” -Yorick

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