Yone guide: build, runes, matchups and mistakes to avoid

Yone in figures

Games in mid lane

36,572 (52.1% of the champion’s games)

Win rate

51.2%

Pick rate

≈ 18.6% of games

Ban rate

≈ 17.5% of games

The figures in this guide come from 378,251 ranked solo games played on EUW, patches 16.18 to 16.21, read through Riot’s official API up to 24 October 2026: the same sample as Gankademy’s champion pages. “≈” marks a figure the app also gives as indicative.

Yone is also played in top lane: 31,759 games, 50.2% won. The most-played build there is Blade of The Ruined King → Immortal Shieldbow → Infinity Edge (33% of games, ≈ 58.9%).

The build that wins most

A build, here, is the order of the first three finished items. Out of the 5,845 Yone games in mid lane where those three items are known, the three most-played paths:

In mid, Immortal Shieldbow first and Blade of The Ruined King first win almost the same: choose by your lane. In top lane, Blade of The Ruined King first is by far the most common start.

With build 1, the game most often starts with Doran’s Bow + 2 × Health Potion, the boots are Berserker’s Greaves (99% of games) and the skills are maxed in the order Q > E > W (96%). Most frequent next items: Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, Mortal Reminder.

Runes and summoner spells

The most-played rune pages of Yone in mid lane, by keystone and trees:

Lethal Tempo with Resolve as the secondary tree is Yone’s page in four games out of five, and Fleet Footwork does just as well. Conqueror, much rarer, wins less often.

The full page most played with build 1: Lethal Tempo, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Overgrowth, Second Wind. Summoner spells: Flash + Ignite in 58% of games.

Matchups: the easiest and the hardest

Yone’s win rate against each opponent in the same role, compared with the champion’s usual 51.2%: the gap in points. Only matchups of at least 200 games are kept.

Yone’s worst mid matchups are the champions who punish his entries: Vex, whose passive fears anyone who dashes, and Malphite, who knocks him up the moment he dives. Against them, don’t engage while their control is ready: farm with your thrust and wait for them to use it. Against Azir and Orianna, on the other hand, your soul and your ultimate reach them behind their soldiers and their ball.

In top lane, the hardest: Pantheon (≈ −5.6), Singed (≈ −5.2), Sett (−5.2); the easiest: Gwen (+8.2), Yorick (+7.8), Sion (+7.3).

The most frequent mistakes

Two habits measured on the 9,112 games with a minute-by-minute timeline, then the champion’s own mistakes. These gaps go with losing without proving the cause, but the habit to build is clear.

• Dying before 15 minutes. 58% of games have three or more deaths before the 15th minute; they win only 42.3%, against 67.9% when Yone dies once or less (23% of games). Instead: play your first levels around the third cast of your thrust — it is your engage and your way out. Without it, or without your soul, don’t start a trade.
• Falling behind on farm. At 10 minutes, games with 64 minions or fewer (26%) win 40.9%; those with 81 or more (26%), 62.4%. Instead: last-hit with your thrust when nothing threatens you, and don’t chase a kill into the fog when a wave is about to crash on your tower.
• Teleport in mid. Flash + Teleport is taken in 13% of Yone’s mid games and wins 49.9%, against 52.2% with Flash + Exhaust. Instead: in mid, take a spell that wins the fight itself, unless your team really needs you on the map.
• Sending the soul in without a way back. Your soul always brings you back where you started: if your body stayed among the enemies, you come back among them. Instead: cast it from a safe spot, or end it early when the fight turns.
• Wasting the third thrust on minions. The third cast of your thrust is your engage: spending it to farm means starting the next trade without it. Instead: keep it ready when the enemy can reach you, and use it to engage or to cut off an escape.

With Gankademy

These are the figures of Gankademy’s Yone page. In champion select, the draft gives each option’s record against your lane opponent; once you lock, one click imports a suggested rune page into the client. In game, the reminder shows your build and your CS per minute; after it, the film narrated by your coach pauses on each decision. The draft · The coaches · What it reads.

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