Yone vs Poppy — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yone against Poppy · 50.06% win rate over 1,572 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 50.06% of games vs Poppy in top lane (1,572 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1PoppyPoppy wins level 1 — her Steadfast Presence negates your dashes and shuts down your engage.
Level 2PoppyLevel 2 stays hers as Heroic Charge threatens a wall-stun that punishes any approach.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 evens into a skill check where trading around her W cooldown keeps it neutral.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 remain a skill check as your cooldown-punishing wins some windows, hers win others.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 it's even — Keeper's Verdict can cancel your all-in, so the ult trade is a coin-flip.
First itemYoneFirst item is yours: your DPS spike out-damages her tank build once her W is down.
Two+ itemsYoneLate you out-scale — kiting her limited CC windows and cleaving her down in every extended fight.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Poppy wins levels 1-2 — her Steadfast Presence hard-counters your dash-heavy kit, negating your Q3 and E-return, and her E can stun you into terrain for a punishing trade. Play around her W: don't engage while it's up and farm patiently.

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The full Yone vs Poppy 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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