How to win lane as Nautilus against Yone · 49.11% win rate (7,942 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Q-hook his combo — chain CC, W-shield his Q3.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). He snaps back when it ends. CC in it.
Read from Nautilus's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Nautilus's own plan; across 7,942 pooled games the lane is leaning Yone.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | At level 1 you both lack an all-in — your passive root favours autos but his Q dash matches your steps, so it's even. |
| Level 2 | Nautilus | Your level 2 W shield and E slow let you win the first real trade before his spirit-cleave does anything. |
| Level 3 | Nautilus | Q-pull into passive root plus W burn is a guaranteed combo a level-3 Yone can't answer without burning E-rewind. |
| Levels 4-5 | Nautilus | Your W shield and E slow scale faster than his pre-item DPS — you keep zoning him off the wave. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Even ult window: your undodgeable Depth Charge knocks him up, but his R recast and E-rewind can escape the follow-up. |
| First item | Even / skill | His first crit/AS item lets his W spirit-cleave chunk through your W shield, evening out your durability edge. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Two items in his Q dash, E-rewind and R make him un-pinnable and his crit damage outpaces your tank itemization — he owns the late. |
Level 1 is roughly even — your passive root makes auto-trades favourable but you have no all-in without W and E. The lane turns at 2-3: with W shield, E slow and Q online you can land a Q-pull into passive-root combo and out-trade a Yone whose W spirit-cleave hasn't ramped into real damage yet. The thing to respect is his E — if he's holding spirit-rewind, your Q engage just gets undone, so bait that mark out or pull him when E is on cooldown.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Nautilus's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Nautilus 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 — Nautilus wins 49.11% of 7,942 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yone has a small statistical edge (50.89% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yone has the slight edge (Nautilus wins 49.11%), though it stays close.
Nautilus takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Iceborn Gauntlet (perma-slow chains) first, then Sunfire Aegis, with Plated Steelcaps.
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