Lillia vs Yone — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Lillia against Yone · 49.19% win rate (1,677 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15

Verdict: Yone is slightly favoured — Lillia wins 49.19% of 1,677 games. Play it patient and win your windows.

At a glance

His dash interrupts your jog — hold E for the engage and sleep the dive at 6.

Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). His burst window — survive it and punish the body he snaps back to.

Do

  • E the approach before he dashes
  • Hold R to sleep the committed dive
  • W-sweetspot his landing point

Don't

  • Jog in small circles near his dash range
  • Burn R for poke or waveclear
  • Trade flat while Soul Unbound is loaded

Runes & build vs Yone

Start
Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions
First back
Fated Ashes (≈900g) — burn comes online
First item
Liandry's Torment
Then
Riftmaker / Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Boots
Boots of Swiftness
Runes
Grasp of the Undying (Resolve): Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth · Sorcery: Transcendence, Celerity · Shards: Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, Health

Favour timeline — the windows in Lillia's game plan

Read from Lillia's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.

This is Lillia's own plan; across 1,677 pooled games the lane is leaning Yone.

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillYone is an even level-1 and so are you — last-hit with Q tip and stay out of his W spirit-cleave range.
Level 2LilliaYour Q sweetspot move speed and the E slow let you chip and kite while he has only one cleave cast to answer.
Level 3LilliaThe Dream Dust burn compounds and your stacking speed keeps you out of reach — every step he takes at you feeds the DoT.
Levels 4-5Even / skillHe has both Q charges and E rewind now, so the lane evens out — your poke still grinds him but his cleave shreds on commit.
Level 6LilliaHold Lilting Lullaby for his Q-dash engage — the Dream Dust sleep flips his all-in and you punish the wake-up.
First itemYoneHis first-item Shieldbow and spirit-cleave shred out-trade your Liandry's while it's still ramping — his power window opens.
Two+ itemsYoneHis two-stack Q dash and the Fate Sealed pull drag you out of the kite with no defensive button — close it out before late.

How to beat Yone as Lillia: the early game

Yone is even at level 1 and so are you — last-hit with the tip of your Q from range and don't throw anything into his W spirit-cleave range. Levels 2-3 are your window: layer Q sweetspots for the stacking move speed and tag him with the E slow so your Dream Dust burn ticks while he only has one cast of his cleave to retaliate. He has no double-dash Q yet, so every step he takes at you costs HP — chip and back off, don't get greedy into his melee zone.

Hardest and easiest matchups for Lillia in top lane

Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Lillia's side, sampled July 2026.

Hardest

Easiest

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The full Lillia 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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Common questions

Who wins Lillia vs Yone in top lane?

Yone, slightly — Lillia wins 49.19% of 1,677 games; winnable with the right plan.

Is Lillia vs Yone a skill matchup?

Mostly — Yone has a small statistical edge (50.81% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.

Does Lillia counter Yone?

No — if anything Yone has the slight edge (Lillia wins 49.19%), though it stays close.

What runes does Lillia take vs Yone?

Lillia takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Sorcery secondary (Transcendence and Celerity) vs Yone.

What should Lillia build vs Yone?

Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Fated Ashes (≈900g) — burn comes online. Build Liandry's Torment first, then Riftmaker / Rylai's Crystal Scepter, with Boots of Swiftness.

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