How to win lane as Kassadin against Yone · 52.16% win rate over 2,088 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yone | Yone's early poke and wave push force you to play passive with nothing to punish him with yet. |
| Level 2 | Yone | His Q3 dash-knockup threat still outclasses your trade tools before you have charges or R. |
| Level 3 | Yone | Q resets plus Wind Wall let him control the lane tempo and deny your Force Pulse windows. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | He can chain a full Q1-Q2-Q3-E combo that kills you before your kit comes online. |
| Level 6 | Kassadin | Your first Riftwalk gives you a blink-in/blink-out poke tool his kit has no answer to. |
| First item | Yone | He can still land a knockup all-in through your Q/R mobility if you misposition, so it stays contested. |
| Two+ items | Kassadin | Full-build double-blink burst outscales his damage and dodges his only defensive cooldown. |
Levels 1-2 are a poke stalemate but Yone's Q3 threat means you can't stand still on 2nd cast; from level 3 he starts chaining Q1-Q2-Q3 into E for real damage and you're stuck farming passively behind minions since your Force Pulse needs charges you haven't stacked yet.
The full Kassadin 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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