How to win lane as Vladimir against Yone · 53.13% win rate (7,548 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He brawls, you drain — the extended fight he forces is the exact fight your kit monetizes.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). His burst window — survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.
Read from Vladimir's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Vladimir's own plan; across 7,548 pooled games the lane is leaning Vladimir.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yone | Yone's level-1 Q poke and E windup beat your feeble early Transfusion trades. |
| Level 2 | Yone | At 2 he still out-damages you and you have no W to escape a setup. |
| Level 3 | Yone | Yone hits 3 with Q3 knock-up plus E, a burst combo you cannot answer yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Through 4-5 Yone's empowered Q3 into E all-in outraces your Transfusion heals. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 Hemoplague plus full E lets you flip the fight and W pools his knock-up. |
| First item | Even / skill | On his first item Yone's Q3 gap-close and dive reliability outpace your single-item spike. |
| Two+ items | Vladimir | With two items your kiting, pool timing, and Hemoplague team amp outscale his single-target dive. |
Levels 1-2 belong to Yone: his Q poke and E windup out-trade your weak early Transfusion, and with no W yet you have no escape from a Q3 setup, so last-hit safe and do not contest the first two waves. Track Soul Unbound is 22s at rank 1, 10s max — his burst window; survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Vladimir's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Vladimir 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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Vladimir, slightly — a 53.13% win rate edge over 7,548 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Vladimir has a small statistical edge (53.13% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Vladimir has a slight edge (53.13% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Vladimir takes Phase Rush on the Sorcery tree with Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Scorch, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Overgrowth) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Amplifying Tome + Boots (≈900g). Build Riftmaker first, then Cosmic Drive, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Swiftness.
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