How to win lane as Malphite against Yone · 53.94% win rate over 1,817 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yone | Yone's Q poke and W shield out-trade you while you have no W armor or E to answer — eat it and farm. |
| Level 2 | Yone | He pokes with Q and cleaves with W before Granite Shield can refresh — still his window, last-hit at range. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | W's armor and E start coming online — trades even out, but neither of you cleanly wins yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Your W armor stack and E attack-speed slow blunt his autos, but he can still E-rewind any trade you start. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force knocks him up with no escape if you bait his E spirit first — your hardest all-in lands here. |
| First item | Malphite | Frozen Heart plus W armor and your E shred his on-hit DPS — your armor-stacking peak out-trades him. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | A fed Yone's Q3 knock-up, crit, and E-rewind out-duel a low-economy tank — peel for carries instead of soloing him. |
Yone owns the opening — his Q poke and W spirit-cleave chip you while you have no trade pattern and just eat damage before W and E come online. Don't walk up to last-hit into his Q; use the tip of your own Q to farm and let Granite Shield refresh between his pokes. Accept that pre-3 is his window and don't trade back yet — your E attack-speed slow and W armor simply aren't online to punish him.
The full Malphite 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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