How to win lane as Sion against Yone · 48.13% win rate over 5,849 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yone has no hard engage at level 1 — he can Q1-Q2 poke but his Q3 knockup requires a third Q cast he rarely reaches safely; stay even by farming at Q range. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | W-shield eats his Q3-W cleave burst in a short trade, but his Q cooldown resets fast enough that extended fights at level 2 bleed your HP — trade short and recall ahead. |
| Level 3 | Sion | Soul Unbound commits him to a location until retraction — a charged Q stun during that window pins him in place, and E armor-shred turns the punish into a real HP lead. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | Yone's Q dash pattern lets him trade and disengage before your charge telegraph completes; hold the Q charge behind the minion wave and only release when he is mid-E retraction. |
| Level 6 | Sion | Unstoppable Onslaught hard-closes on a retracting Yone — if he uses Soul Unbound at mid-lane range, your R charge reaches him before he snaps back and locks him into your charged-Q follow-up. |
| First item | Even / skill | Kraken Slayer's first-item true-damage passive starts punishing your max-HP stacking now; keep trades to one Q-E combo and disengage before three autos land, or your HP advantage evaporates. |
| Two+ items | Yone | At full build Yone's Kraken true damage, on-hit chain, and Q-dash mobility beat your W-shield value outright in a sustained 1v1 — play as a frontline zoner and let your zombie passive do the work, not your dueling. |
Level 1 you are both feeling each other out — Yone has no real all-in and you can land a partial charged Q if he walks up, but he will mostly respect the charge animation. At level 2 activate W-shield early in any trade so the detonation chip lands before he Q1-Q2-Q3s you, and back off before his Q3 knockup resolves. Level 3 is your clearest advantage: W absorbs his Q3-W cleave burst and you can charged Q him during his Soul Unbound (E) window — he is committed until the retraction snaps him back, and the stun catches him mid-flight. Keep trades short; do not let him land three autos and proc Doran's Blade or early Kraken-stacking runepage bonuses.
The full Sion 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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