Yone vs Nautilus — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yone against Nautilus · 50.89% win rate over 7,942 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Yone is favoured — Yone owns 7 of the 7 game windows. Yone wins 50.89% of games vs Nautilus in top lane (7,942 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YoneLevel 1 is yours — Nautilus has no real damage, only an auto-attack root, so your Q trades win freely.
Level 2YoneLevel 2 stays yours; you shove and poke while he has no way to punish your aggression.
Level 3YoneLevel 3 remains yours — his hook is his only tool and dodging it leaves him helpless in lane.
Levels 4-5YoneLevels 4-5 favour you as your damage and mobility fully outclass a tank with no waveclear.
Level 6YoneAt 6 you spike — Fate Sealed kills through his low-damage Depth Charge that he can't trade back against.
First itemYoneFirst item is yours as your DPS shreds his pure-tank build while he can only try to peel.
Two+ itemsYoneLate you stay ahead — you kite and cleave down a tank whose only threat is a single, dodgeable hook.

Early game (levels 1–5)

You own levels 1-3 outright: Nautilus brings passive-root autos and a hook but no sustained damage or waveclear, so poke him with Q and shield trades with W. As long as you sidestep his Dredge Line, he cannot punish you.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yone vs Nautilus 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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