How to win lane as Graves against Yone · 49.46% win rate (8,568 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He wants the same close-range brawl — your E grit-armor decides who actually wins it.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). His burst window — survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.
Read from Graves's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Graves's own plan; across 8,568 pooled games the lane is even.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Lane opens near-even: Yone's Q pokes and his short cooldowns answer your single shell volley, so concede the first window and just farm. |
| Level 2 | Graves | At level 3 your E-dash and bonus armor let you commit a point-blank shell spread his early sustain trade can't match. |
| Level 3 | Graves | Smoke Screen cuts his sight and slows him while you detonate End of the Line, so his Spirit Cleave shield trade falls flat. |
| Levels 4-5 | Graves | Stacking True Grit armor/MR and a Quickdraw your autos refresh compound — you out-tank and out-burst him in every brawl. |
| Level 6 | Graves | Collateral Damage kills a won trade: fire R as Soul Unbound detaches his spirit so he eats the nuke before he snaps back. |
| First item | Graves | Your Eclipse/Youmuu's spike beats his pre-crit duel power — force the all-in before his Infinity Edge comes online. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Crit items push his auto and Q3 DPS past your two-shell magazine and his E in-and-out kites your reload — he out-scales you. |
Level 1-2 is close to even — Mortal Steel is a fast poke on 4 seconds and Spirit Cleave shields him in melee, so don't force your point-blank shells into a fight he can answer; just last-hit and keep your magazine loaded. The lane tilts your way at 3: dash in with E for the bonus armor, drop Smoke Screen on him so he loses sight of you inside the cloud, and detonate End of the Line on top of him before Spirit Cleave shields it. His sustain can't beat your shell burst plus stacking True Grit — but Soul Unbound detaches his spirit and snaps it back on 22s, so don't over-commit chasing one E.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Graves's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Graves 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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Nobody on paper — a 49.46% win rate over 8,568 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Graves vs Yone is a genuine skill matchup: 49.46% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Graves vs Yone win rate is 49.46%, an even lane decided by execution.
Graves takes Fleet Footwork on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Bone Plating) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Blade + 1 Health Potion and back for Serrated Dirk (≈1100g) — lethality spike. Build Eclipse / Hubris first, then The Collector, with Plated Steelcaps.
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