How to win lane as Trundle against Yone · 47.94% win rate over 340 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yone | Yone's Q range exceeds your melee threat at level 1 and his Q2 slow means you cannot close onto Frozen Domain safely — absorb the poke through King's Tribute minion healing and do not overcommit. |
| Level 2 | Yone | His Q2 slow plus soul-cleave damage at level 2 lets him win short trades before you can establish your W zone — play reactive and track his E cooldown rather than stepping up. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With all three abilities live the matchup is closer — your Q Chomp AS steal compounds over extended trades inside Frozen Domain, making any fight he stays in past three seconds risky for him. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 are skill-dependent on Pillar placement; neither kit has a clean advantage but Yone's E reset gives him the escape card that keeps him from dying to a committed Chomp combo. |
| Level 6 | Trundle | Subjugate at level 6 is your lane-defining spike — the resist drain activates mid-fight and if you Pillar his Soul Unbound snap-back location he cannot leave, making this the one window you clearly win. |
| First item | Even / skill | First item is contested — your Iceborn Gauntlet extends Chomp's slow into a field-zone but his Kraken Slayer's true damage begins dismantling the resistance payoff your entire kit depends on. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Two-item Yone with Kraken Slayer and lethal tempo shreds through your stacked armor and MR, his E reset makes Pillar increasingly hard to land, and his damage ceiling overtakes your sustain. |
Levels 1-2 are genuinely his — Yone's Q is a long-range linear slash you cannot trade into at level 1 without eating both hits, and his Q2 slow means chasing him back to your W is harder than it looks. Play near the wave, last-hit with Chomp when you can get in cleanly, and do not waste E Pillar trying to trap him before level 3; he will simply walk around it or E away. The one bright spot: King's Tribute heals you off every minion that dies nearby, so his poke does less than it looks like on the health bar.
The full Trundle 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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