How to win lane as Annie against Yone · 54.89% win rate over 1,798 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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 — you now have Tibbers' passive armor buffer up but he also unlocks Soul Unbound follow-up damage, so it stays on player execution. |
| Levels 4-5 | Annie | 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: Mounting Sorrow gives Yone a knockup-into-execute all-in that outpaces your kit for one level, tilting this phase to him. |
| First item | Yone | First item: your burst rotation one-shots him from range post-Luden's/Everfrost, 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.
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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