How to win lane as Gragas against Yone · 50.7% win rate over 712 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You're a one-ability level 1 with no Happy Hour and he has Q-dash poke; neither of you wins cleanly, so just farm and set up level 2. |
| Level 2 | Gragas | Q+W gives you the cask slow and a Drunken Rage empowered auto that out-trades his Q before he has W to shield and cleave back. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | His E rewind and Q-dash let him reset trades, and without your full combo maxed you can't reliably punish the over-extend yet, so it stays a coin-flip. |
| Levels 4-5 | Gragas | W max and Happy Hour let you out-sustain his W cleave and win the extended trade through Drunken Rage's damage reduction. |
| Level 6 | Gragas | E-W-Q plus Explosive Cask is a real all-in: your Body Slam stun pins him and R behind him denies the Spirit Rewind he'd escape with. |
| First item | Even / skill | The 6 kill window is the one moment you flip the lane, but if he holds E or dodges your Body Slam the all-in fizzles and resets to even, so it's not a free spike. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Two crit items plus his Q knockup and E-rewind reset kite your single telegraphed Body Slam and shred your HP; swap to peeling with cask, don't duel him. |
Early this is a real fight, not a free lane, and the 50.7% mirrors that. At level 1 you're a single ability with no Happy Hour yet, so don't contest his Q-dash poke. Level 2 is your first window: take Q+W, slow him with the cask and land the Drunken Rage empowered auto for a trade his early Q can't match before he has W to shield and cleave back. The key all lane is his E, Spirit Rewind, which snaps him back to where he cast it, so any time you commit before that's down he just deletes the trade and resets. Save your Body Slam as the pin, not the engage.
The full Gragas 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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