Yone vs Illaoi — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yone against Illaoi · 51.06% win rate over 1,694 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: A genuine skill matchup — the favour swings window to window (2 apiece of the 7 stages). Yone wins 51.06% of games vs Illaoi in top lane (1,694 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1IllaoiIllaoi's level-1 tentacle slaps and E out-trade your unstacked Q.
Level 2IllaoiLevel 2 her tentacle field and spirit-pull keep punishing your trades.
Level 3Even / skillAt 3 your combo evens it into a skill window off her E cooldown.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 stay skill-based around dodging her E and tentacles.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 your E walks your body out of her ult field, keeping it skill.
First itemYoneFirst-item Yone bursts her between tentacle swings when E is down.
Two+ itemsYoneYone out-scales and R-flanks from outside her tentacle zone late.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Illaoi owns levels 1-2: her Tentacle (E) and passive slaps out-trade you, and if you fight inside her tentacle field her Q slams stack damage faster than your W-shield can absorb, so farm at range and respect the E skillshot. Eating a spirit-pull this early can lose you the lane outright.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yone vs Illaoi 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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