How to win lane as Karma against Yone · 50.48% win rate (5,826 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He runs at a tether that roots and a shield that speeds — the run-down never quite arrives if you space it right.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). His burst window — survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.
Read from Karma's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Karma's superior poke range and safe wave-clear pattern shut down Yone's melee-locked early kit before his Q3 dash comes online |
| Level 2 | Karma | Same dynamic continues — Yone still lacks the stacks/gold to force trades, so Karma keeps winning exchanges |
| Level 3 | Karma | Karma's Q-E poke is still ahead but Yone's Q3 threat starts appearing more often, tightening the gap |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Both champions now have full combos online and outcomes hinge on execution — dash dodges versus tether landings, hence a skill matchup |
| Level 6 | Yone | Yone's ultimate grants him a genuine all-in and pick tool that outpaces Karma's defensive kit, tipping this phase to him |
| First item | Yone | Yone's crit-scaling item spikes let him burst through Karma's shields faster than she can poke him down, so first item favors him |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Karma's Mantra-enabled shield/heal/tether keeps her team alive in extended fights, clawing the late game back onto an even-to-favorable footing for her |
Levels 1-3 are yours outright: Karma's Q poke out-damages Yone's safe Q1/Q2 wave-clear pattern, and 950 range against his 450 means he can't contest CS without eating free damage every trade. He has no reliable gap-closer until Mortal Steel reaches its second stack and dashes, so if you poke and back off you deny him easy lane presence. By level 4 it's a coinflip skill matchup — whoever lands more W tether roots versus more accurate Q3 dash-ins decides the exchanges, since both champions are now threatening real damage.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Karma's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Karma 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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Nobody on paper — a 50.48% win rate over 5,826 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Karma vs Yone is a genuine skill matchup: 50.48% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Karma vs Yone win rate is 50.48%, an even lane decided by execution.
Karma takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Lost Chapter (≈1300g) — the spam war funds itself. Build Blackfire Torch first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes.
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