How to win lane as Kennen against Yone · 47.54% win rate over 427 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Both of you are weak at level 1 — you out-range his Q poke but with no stun and a fragile body, neither commits, so it reads even. |
| Level 2 | Kennen | Your second Q plus Electrical Surge on-hit lets you start a real Mark of the Storm chain while he's stuck farming with only Mortal Steel. |
| Level 3 | Kennen | With Q-W you can land a two-mark poke trade or stun an overstepping Yone before his Q-stacks and cleave heal it back. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | He hits his Q-stack and W-cleave combo here and can out-trade your squishy body — keep E up and concede the hard-commit window. |
| Level 6 | Kennen | Slicing Maelstrom plus the Q-W-E-Flash mark stun-lock wins the pre-item all-in, especially if his E rewind is on cooldown. |
| First item | Kennen | Hextech Alternator into Liandry's cashes your R combo into a kill — your peak relative strength, so force the all-in now. |
| Two+ items | Yone | At 2+ items his sustain, Q-dash and R knockup let him survive your stun and out-duel you once R is down — play for teamfights. |
Yone's lane is even at level 1 but you get the first real window — you out-range his Q (Mortal Steel) with Thundering Shuriken, so chip him at max range and start stacking Mark of the Storm while he just farms. At 2-3 your second Q point plus Electrical Surge on-hit lets you land a genuine poke trade or even a two-mark stun if he oversteps to last-hit. The catch: his Q stacks and W-cleave heal a lot of your poke back, so chunk-and-back rather than expecting it to stick. Never get marked into his Q3 knockup-dash with no E to escape.
The full Kennen 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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