How to win lane as Akali against Yone · 51.26% win rate over 6,069 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Akali | Even trading window — neither champion has a clear kit advantage before level 3, so poke accuracy decides small skirmishes. |
| Level 2 | Akali | Yone's Q3 (third Mortal Steel cast) delivers a guaranteed knockup that outvalues your own combo at this level, giving him the trade. |
| Level 3 | Yone | Same Q3 knockup timing continues to punish any overextension from you, so Yone keeps the edge through level 5. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | Yone's knockup chains into extended damage across levels 4-5, but your damage floor is rising fast enough that the trades are close. |
| Level 6 | Akali | Perfect Execution grants you a reset-capable burst combo that's simply stronger than anything Yone has at this exact level, making level 6 yours. |
| First item | Yone | Yone's own ultimate comes online here and gives him a temporary engage/teamfight edge that swings this phase back to him. |
| Two+ items | Akali | With core items and Shroud resets available, your late-game all-in and vision-denial kit outclasses his 1v1 potential once more. |
Levels 1-2 are close — neither of you has a defining spike yet, so it's about who lands first-blood poke with Q. From level 3 Yone's Mortal Steel stacks into a guaranteed knockup on the third cast, and that window is genuinely his: if you're caught extending for CS he can knock you up and combo before your Shroud is even relevant.
The full Akali vs Yone report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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