How to win lane as Zed against Yone · 52.22% win rate over 6,668 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even: Yone has Q poke range but no committal all-in and you both just want to farm safely. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 remains a skill matchup with neither champion holding a decisive early all-in. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 is even because his E spirit-form gives him a rewind escape that matches your dash trades. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 stay skill-dependent as his passive double-crit sustain offsets your poke if he trades cleanly. |
| Level 6 | Zed | Level 6 favours you: your unblockable R detonation and Electrocute burst him through his sustain with no Windwall to stop it. |
| First item | Zed | With first item your R combo one-shots him before his Q3 knockup and R dash can land. |
| Two+ items | Zed | At 2+ items you keep the pick-off edge, deleting him on step-up before his ult-reset outscaling can take over. |
Levels 1-2 play even: he pokes with Q and has E mobility soon, so respect his range, dodge casts, and don't feed free Q stacks while farming.
The full Zed 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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