Heimerdinger vs Yone — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Yone · 49.22% win rate over 386 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Heimerdinger owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Yone's 2, but the win rate still favours Yone: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Heimerdinger wins 49.22% of games vs Yone in top lane (386 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YoneLevel 1 you have one turret and no grenade — his auto-attacks and Q strikes walk the lone turret down and out-trade you before the nest exists.
Level 2Even / skillA second turret and the slowing electron beams arrive — his step-in poke now costs him health on the way out, evening it.
Level 3HeimerdingerWith the nest forming and beams slowing every approach, his commit-reliant kit gets taxed each time he steps in to trade.
Levels 4-5HeimerdingerThree charges plus the CH-3X center-stun make a full nest — any Q3 dash-in is deleted while he's frozen before he can recast E out.
Level 6Even / skillHis R dashes and knocks up clean through the turrets onto your immobile body, but your UPGRADE!!! super-grenade answers if you land the center-stun as he lands.
First itemHeimerdingerYour first-item nest architecture peaks — you out-siege and zone the lane you already controlled.
Two+ itemsYoneCrit and the Spirit Cleave cone shred the turrets while Soul Unbound snaps his body out of bad dives — the immobile yordle gets out-scaled.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 leans his way — you have a single turret and no grenade, so his auto-attacks and Q strikes can walk that one turret down and chunk you each time you step up to it. Drop your first turret defensively behind the minion line, bank charges, and don't trade autos with him in the open. By 2-3 the zone starts shifting to you: a second turret plus the slowing electron beams mean every time he steps in to last-hit or poke, he leaves the beam range slowed and chunked. Don't waste W-rockets chasing — farm behind the nest and let the beams tax his approach.

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The full Heimerdinger 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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