How to beat Yone

Common role: Mid / Top

A hybrid-damage skirmisher who dashes in with his spirit and knocks up with Q3.

What makes Yone dangerous

Yone builds up his Q into a knock-up dash (Q3), can enter and retreat with his ultimate and his spirit form (E), and mixes physical and magic damage so single-resistance itemization doesn't fully stop him. He scales hard into the mid and late game.

How to play against Yone

• 1Respect his Q3 (the third Q that dashes and knocks up) — when his Q is stacked, don't stand in a straight line in front of him.
• 2His E (Soul Unbound) returns him to where he cast it and only deals a portion of the damage taken there. Chase him past the return point or CC him before E ends to punish it.
• 3Trade when his Q is not stacked and his E is on cooldown — that's when he has no escape and no knock-up.
• 4His ultimate is a wide dash-through knock-up; sidestep to the flank so he can't line it up on your whole team.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Weak and immobile while his Q isn't stacked and E is down.
• ✓Squishy early — no defensive stats until items.
• ✓E has a hard punish window if you follow up.
• ✓Relies on landing Q3/ult to engage; dodge them and he's stuck.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Yone's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Via dello Shinigami

  Yone infligge danni magici a ogni secondo attacco. Inoltre, la sua probabilità di colpo critico aumenta.

• Q
  Furia d'acciaio

  Colpisce in avanti, danneggiando tutti i nemici lungo una linea.Sul colpo, conferisce una carica di Tempesta incombente per qualche secondo. A 2 cariche, con Furia d'acciaio Yone scatta in avanti con una raffica di vento che lancia i nemici in aria.

  Strong: builds to a dash-and-knock-up on the third cast. Weak: telegraphed when stacked — don't stand in a line in front of him with Q charged.

• W
  Fendente Reiatsu

  Colpisce in avanti, danneggiando tutti i nemici in un'area a cono. Fornisce a Yone uno scudo il cui valore aumenta in base al numero dei campioni colpiti con la spazzata.Il tempo di ricarica e di lancio di Fendente Reiatsu si riducono con la velocità d'attacco.

• E
  Scissione spirituale

  Lo spirito di Yone esce dal suo corpo, guadagnando velocità di movimento. Al termine di questa abilità, lo spirito di Yone torna nel suo corpo e ripete una parte dei danni inflitti in forma di spirito.

  Strong: enters spirit form to reposition, returning to the cast point. Weak: only a fraction of damage taken follows him back — burst him past the return point or CC him before E ends.

• R
  Rashomon

  Yone scatta alle spalle dell'ultimo nemico in una linea sferrando un fendente tanto potente da attirare tutti i nemici colpiti verso di sé.

  Strong: a wide dash-through knock-up that catches groups. Weak: a fixed line — sidestep to the flank so he can't line up your whole team.

Itemization

Because Yone is hybrid, mixed defenses beat him: pair armor and magic resist rather than stacking one. Attack-speed slows (Randuin's, Frozen Heart) blunt his on-hit crit side; a Zhonya's baits out his all-in.

This guide covers Yone's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.