How to win lane as Swain against Yone · 51.58% win rate over 696 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Swain | Level 1 favours you because your Q outranges and out-damages Yone before he has any trading combo. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 is even as Yone picks up a second ability and both of you settle into safe farming and poke. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 stays a skill lane because your E-Q poke and his E recall cancel each other out. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 remain even since neither of you can commit a clean kill through the other's escape and poke. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6 is even-to-Yone's edge as his R plus E recall arrives, but your R drain still contests it, keeping it close. |
| First item | Yone | At his first item Yone pulls ahead because a survivability buy lets him outlast your R and win the extended trade. |
| Two+ items | Yone | With two-plus items Yone's untargetable dive and burst overpower your single-target lockdown, so the scaling favours him. |
Level 1 is yours: your Q base damage and range let you poke Yone before he has a real trading pattern, so contest the wave and chunk him when he steps to last-hit. From level 2 it evens into a skill lane, you shove and poke while he weaves Q and looks for his Q3 windup, and neither of you should be dying if you respect spacing.
The full Swain 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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