How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Yone · 48.47% win rate (3,297 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
R him at his E snap-back — the realm locks him in.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). He snaps back when it ends. R him there.
Read from Mordekaiser's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Mordekaiser's own plan; across 3,297 pooled games the lane is leaning Yone.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yone's W-cleave and Q farm the wave fine at level 1 and you have no Darkness Rise aura yet — it's even, so last-hit and set up your level 2 spike. |
| Level 2 | Mordekaiser | Your Q + W comes online: single-target Obliterate stacks the aura fast and Indestructible banks the trade, beating his W-empowered poke once his Q-dash is spent. |
| Level 3 | Mordekaiser | At 3 your Q-into-aura combo plus W sustain out-trades him in any short fight, before crit/on-hit and his full mobility kit exist. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Even window — Darkness Rise ramps your extended trades, but his E spirit-rewind lets him commit a combo and snap back out of your follow-up. |
| Level 6 | Mordekaiser | Realm of Death isolates him with no allies, so Fate Sealed's line-pull and Spirit Cleave's shield have nothing to feed on — you own this duel. |
| First item | Mordekaiser | Your Liandry's Torment + Sorcerer's spike makes the E-pull-into-R all-in lethal before his crit items come online. |
| Two+ items | Yone | He out-scales you hard: Mortal Steel's dash-knockup and Soul Unbound's rewind kite your aura and out-duel you once items land. |
"At level 1 Yone's W (spirit-cleave) and Q give him fine waveclear, so don't expect to dominate the opener — just farm and set up your level 2-3 spike. Once you have Q + W, Obliterate's single-target bonus smashes him and stacks Darkness Rise fast, while Indestructible banks the trade — so you out-trade him if you land Q after his Q-dash is spent. Don't throw Obliterate at max range where he just Q-dashes out of the cone; wait for the dash, then Q-into-aura and chunk him."
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Mordekaiser's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Mordekaiser 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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Yone, slightly — Mordekaiser wins 48.47% of 3,297 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yone has a small statistical edge (51.53% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yone has the slight edge (Mordekaiser wins 48.47%), though it stays close.
Mordekaiser takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Overgrowth) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Haunting Guise / Giant's Belt (≈900-1300g). Build Liandry's Torment (burn carries his extended trades) first, then Riftmaker (omnivamp turns the Realm 1v1 unloseable), with Plated Steelcaps (Swiftness into kite comps).
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