How to win lane as Graves against Yone · 56% win rate over 75 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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 blinds his autos and empowered Q3 while you detonate End of the Line, so his W shield trade falls flat. |
| Levels 4-5 | Graves | Stacking True Grit armor/MR and your second E charge compound — you out-tank and out-burst him in every extended brawl. |
| Level 6 | Graves | Collateral Damage kills a won trade: fire R as he detaches his spirit on E so he eats the nuke before he can snap 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 — Yone's Q is a fast poke with short cooldowns and his W gives him a shield 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 his autos and his empowered third-Q whiff blind, and detonate End of the Line on top of him before his W shield eats it. His sustain trade can't beat your shell burst plus stacking True Grit while he's blinded — but his E lets his spirit detach and snap back to his body, so don't over-commit chasing one E.
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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