↑ Shanba wrote:While triforce is good on yorick, I'm generally skeptical of builds that involve getting 6000+ golds worth of items before investing in any defence on a melee character. What's more, yorick scales better than most bruisers off pure ad (which atmogs is rich in and triforce is poor in) thanks to both ad ratios on his q and e and the fact that ghouls gain a percentage of his attack damage (35% iirc). I've no doubt that despite this triforce builds do more damage, but then again when you invest 4k gold in a damage item I certainly hope it would do more damage, but yorick and other bruisers also need to be able to survive being in the fray, which is why atmogs is so good generally.
Which is the idea behind getting the glacial and the negatron before beginning to invest in the tri-force (and then adding more health later on) - it should give you enough resistances to back up your health that you don't instantly melt in a fight. If you're feeling really squishy, you could
probably
go for a giant's belt before going in on the tri-force. I've been wanting to try that for a while but haven't had the opportunity.Shanba wrote:Then there's the fact that yorick remains a threat even without a huge amount of damage items due to duplicating your ad carry, so he can persist on low damage for a while before he needs to ramp it up. If you really need to get your damage online faster, manamune-giants belt-atmas-finish warmogs is a good build path (possibly even optimal one for getting atmogs generally, imo)
I'd ask myself after spending 2000 gold on manamune whether my next purchase really needs to be another big damage item. I think the answer is generally no unless you're absolutely crushing face (which, granted, is fairly common on yorick).
I don't really like atmog's as compared to a triforce + manamune + tankiness build on Yorick solely due to the fact that the sheen procs work so well on him (and the phage slows are useful too). Atmog's is perfectly viable, I just don't think it's a
great
route to be taking.
