Yone vs Lillia — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yone against Lillia · 50.81% win rate (1,677 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15

Verdict: Yone is slightly favoured — 50.81% win rate over 1,677 games.

At a glance

Weather the poke — E-burst her on the Blooming Blows cooldown and snap back out.

Track: Lillia's Q — Blooming Blows (6–4s cooldown). Her kite + move speed stacks.

Do

Stack Q to the Q3 knockup
E in when Blooming Blows is down, burst, snap back
W-shield the exchange

Don't

E in while her Blooming Blows is up
Overstay the E timer
Whiff Q3 into minions

Runes & build vs Lillia

Start: Doran's Shield + Health Potion (vs her poke)
First back: Core component + boots (≈1300g)
First item: Blade of the Ruined King (mixed-damage spike)
Then: Infinity Edge
Boots: Mercury's Treads
Runes: Lethal Tempo (Precision): Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand · Resolve: Second Wind, Bone Plating · Shards: Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, Magic Resist

Favour timeline — the windows in Yone's game plan

Read from Yone's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Lillia.

This is Yone's own plan; across 1,677 pooled games the lane is leaning Yone.

Stage	Favoured	Why
Level 1	Lillia	Lillia's Swirlseed slow and the true damage on Blooming Blows' edge own level 1.
Level 2	Yone	At level 2 your second Q dash charge lets you punish her the moment her Q is down.
Level 3	Even / skill	Levels 3-5 are a skill dance of her kiting versus your dash timing.
Levels 4-5	Even / skill	Neither champ secures a clean kill here — it stays even.
Level 6	Even / skill	Level 6 is a coin-flip of her R sleep versus your E and R escapes.
First item	Yone	With your first item your DPS shreds her squishy frame faster than her burn.
Two+ items	Yone	Two items in, Yone dashes onto her and deletes her before the sleep resets.

How to beat Lillia as Yone: the early game

Lillia edges level 1 — Swirlseed rolls in from 700 range and slows you, and her passive burns a slice of max health you can't avoid while last-hitting. Once you hit level 2 you flip it: Mortal Steel out-trades her the instant Blooming Blows lands and sits on its 6s cooldown. Walk up when her Q is spent, not before, and never through the seed.

Hardest and easiest matchups for Yone in top lane

Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yone's side, sampled July 2026.

Hardest

Yone vs Master Yi — 43.74% win rate
Yone vs Riven — 44.99% win rate
Yone vs Akali — 45.24% win rate

Easiest

Yone vs Yorick — 56.7% win rate
Yone vs K'Sante — 56.17% win rate
Yone vs Mel — 56.1% win rate

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yone vs Lillia 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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Common questions

Who wins Yone vs Lillia in top lane?

Yone, slightly — a 50.81% win rate edge over 1,677 games; execution can flip it.

Is Yone vs Lillia a skill matchup?

Mostly — Yone has a small statistical edge (50.81% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.

Does Yone counter Lillia?

Not a hard counter — Yone has a slight edge (50.81% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.

What runes does Yone take vs Lillia?

Yone takes Lethal Tempo on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Bone Plating) vs Lillia.

What should Yone build vs Lillia?

Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion (vs her poke) and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Blade of the Ruined King (mixed-damage spike) first, then Infinity Edge, with Mercury's Treads.

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