Yone vs Vayne — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yone against Vayne · 49.47% win rate over 3,291 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Yone owns 4 of the 7 game windows, but the win rate still favours Vayne: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Yone wins 49.47% of games vs Vayne in top lane (3,291 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillLevel 1 is a skill lane — her true damage is real but she's immobile and squishy.
Level 2YoneAt level 2 your Q poke and W out-trade her paper early stats before her kite is online.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 is skill-decided around baiting and punishing her Condemn.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 stay even as spacing and her E cooldown decide each trade.
Level 6YoneLevel 6 you spike over her — Fate Sealed knocks her up through Condemn and out-bursts her.
First itemYoneAt first item Botrk/crit makes you too fast to kite once her E is baited.
Two+ itemsYoneBy 2+ items your dash-knockup ignores her kiting and one-shots her back line.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 is a skill lane — respect Silver Bolts (W) true damage if you let her free-hit you, but she's an immobile marksman who folds to pressure. By level 2 you tip ahead: your Q poke and Spirit Cleave (W) out-trade her paper early stats before she has kiting tools online.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yone vs Vayne 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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