How to win lane as Annie against Yone · 54.36% win rate (3,287 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He runs at a point-and-click stun — the run costs him the fight if your counter is glowing.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). His burst window — survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.
Read from Annie's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Annie's own plan; across 3,287 pooled games the lane is leaning Annie.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1: Yone's Q3 dash-through-minions keeps him out of your stun range while he still trades favorably with basic attacks, keeping this even at best — hence Skill. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2: he adds a second Q point to poke you down further before you have the mana pool to punish, another even skill matchup. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3: still roughly a coinflip — Molten Shield lets you stack Pyromania safely, but he unlocks Soul Unbound's delayed return damage, so it stays on execution. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5: your full Q-W-E stun-into-burst rotation is online and threatens to nearly half him before he can react, clearly favoring Annie. |
| Level 6 | Annie | Level 6: Fate Sealed blinks him behind you and drags everything it hits back in, outpacing your kit for a level and tilting the phase to him. |
| First item | Yone | First item: your burst rotation one-shots him from range post-Luden's/Rylai's, a clean favor back to Annie. |
| Two+ items | Annie | 2+ items: it stays close to even/Annie-favored overall, since his flank potential keeps him relevant even against your burst, so the phase settles back to Annie on net damage output. |
Levels 1-2 are a stalemate — Yone's Q3 dash range outpaces your movement speed, so he can poke and reset without ever entering stun range, and you don't have the mana or cooldowns yet to punish him for it. Track Yone Soul Unbound: 22s at rank 1 — the spirit repeats its damage on the way back, so survive the window and punish the body it returns to.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Annie's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Annie 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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Annie, slightly — a 54.36% win rate edge over 3,287 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Annie has a small statistical edge (54.36% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Annie has a slight edge (54.36% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Annie takes Electrocute on the Domination tree with Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter, and Sorcery secondary (Manaflow Band and Scorch) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Lost Chapter (≈1300g) — refunds become a war chest. Build Stormsurge / Luden's first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes.
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