Guide · Mid

Yone Guide

the Unforgotten

Fighter

Assassin

Tier B Mid

Yone, the Unforgotten, is a fighter and assassin champion that is demanding to master. Across our 2110 analysed ranked games, Yone is mostly played in Mid (52% of its games), and more rarely in Top (44%), with a 49.8% win rate in that role: tier B among Mid champions (#26 of 42, ranked by win rate). Yone's damage is mostly physical (72%): armor is the best defensive answer against this champion. 13% of that damage is true damage and therefore ignores resistances. Win rate varies with game length: 53.5% in long games (over 35 min, 129 games) versus 47.7% in short games (under 25 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Averages measured over 1095 Mid games played with Yone, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Yone is a fighter-assassin who alternates physical and magic hits: one attack out of two deals magic damage, which makes his damage hard to counter with a single type of resistance. He wins games by stacking Mortal Steel to knock enemies into the air, then closing the fight with Fate Sealed, which gathers the enemies it hits. Soul Unbound is the key to his kit: part of the damage dealt as a spirit is repeated when he returns to his body.

The lane trade

Q › AA AA › Q › W

When: You want to trade without spending Soul Unbound.

Two Mortal Steels close together trigger the dash and the knock-up; slip an attack in between to benefit from his passive, then Spirit Cleave for the shield.

The spirit engage

E › Q › AA AA › W › E

When: An enemy is in range and you want to maximize the repeated damage.

Leave your body with Soul Unbound, deal as much damage as possible while you are a spirit, then recast it: part of that damage is repeated. The combo has to fit within its limited duration, so start it in range.

See all 3 Yone combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Chain basic attacks and Mortal Steel to stack the Storm Surge effect; two stacks let you dash and knock the target up. Spirit Cleave gives you a shield proportional to the number of champions hit: save it for a trade, not for minions.

Common mistakes

• Using Fate Sealed without an ally to follow up: the ultimate puts you in the middle of the enemy team.
• Casting Soul Unbound with nothing to hit: the repeated damage depends on what you deal during the spirit.
• Wasting Spirit Cleave on minions: its shield grows with the champions hit.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow (245 games, 53.9% win rate), usually with Chainlaced Crushers (58.3% over 24 games).

Infinity Edge+Blade of The Ruined King+Immortal Shieldbow

245 games · 53.9%

Infinity Edge+Death's Dance+Immortal Shieldbow

149 games · 61.1%

Blade of The Ruined King+Death's Dance+Immortal Shieldbow

77 games · 57.1%

Skill order

Max order : Q > E > W50.3% · 145 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q	●			●	●		●		●
W		●												●	●
E			●					●		●		●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 171 games).

Starting items

Doran's BowHealth PotionHealth Potion50.0% · 98 games

Doran's ShieldHealth Potion43.1% · 51 games

Doran's BladeHealth Potion43.8% · 16 games

First completed items, in order

Blade of The Ruined King›Immortal Shieldbow›Infinity Edge

36 games · 47.2%

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3748 gold, 79 CS, 4832 XP. At 15 min: 6044 gold, 122 CS, 7624 XP.

Boots

Chainlaced Crushers58.3% · 24 games

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash53.9% · 412 games

Flash + Teleport44.4% · 378 games

Flash + Ignite50.2% · 289 games

Most-played runes

Lethal Tempo + Resolve

50.6% · 698 games

Primary tree · Precision

Absorb Life78%

Legend: Alacrity98%

Last Stand76%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Overgrowth70%

Second Wind62%

Shards

Attack speed100%

Adaptive force98%

Health scaling54%

Fleet Footwork + Resolve

49.3% · 343 games

Primary tree · Precision

Absorb Life80%

Legend: Alacrity98%

Last Stand57%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Second Wind87%

Overgrowth75%

Shards

Attack speed100%

Adaptive force96%

Health60%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Yone's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team50.9% · 318 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Immortal Shieldbow 56.8% ▲

Blade of The Ruined King 50.0%

Infinity Edge 57.0%

Stormrazor 50.8%

Death's Dance 58.3%

Lord Dominik's Regards 60.7% ▲

The item that stands out most is Lord Dominik's Regards: 60.7% win rate, +10 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team47.9% · 265 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Immortal Shieldbow 49.5% ▼

Blade of The Ruined King 47.2%

Infinity Edge 51.7% ▼

Death's Dance 55.1%

Stormrazor 48.3% ▼

Lord Dominik's Regards 45.8%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team50.0% · 512 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Immortal Shieldbow 53.2%

Blade of The Ruined King 47.6%

Infinity Edge 57.6%

Death's Dance 58.5%

Stormrazor 56.8% ▲

Lord Dominik's Regards 46.8% ▼

The item that stands out most is Stormrazor: 56.8% win rate, +4 points versus its usual win rate.

Counters and matchups

Who counters Yone in Mid

Ahri Yone: 36.1%36 games

Ahri has the edge in 64% of the 36 Mid duels against Yone. See the Ahri guide.

Ekko Yone: 40.0%15 games

Ekko has the edge in 60% of the 15 Mid duels against Yone. See the Ekko guide.

Kassadin Yone: 42.1%19 games

Kassadin has the edge in 58% of the 19 Mid duels against Yone. See the Kassadin guide.

Viktor Yone: 42.4%33 games

Viktor has the edge in 58% of the 33 Mid duels against Yone. See the Viktor guide.

Twisted Fate Yone: 43.8%16 games

Twisted Fate has the edge in 56% of the 16 Mid duels against Yone. See the Twisted Fate guide.

Who Yone is strong against

Yasuo62.8% · 43 games

Zed58.3% · 24 games

Locke57.1% · 35 games

Katarina55.6% · 18 games

Lissandra53.3% · 15 games

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Yone's matchups.

Yone Mid: what our games say

Laning phase against the Mid average

Measured over 171 Yone games with a timeline; the average covers 72 champions played Mid in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

Best result: long (over 35 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.

Yone in another role

Role	Games	Win rate	CS/min	Gold/min	Most-built items
Top	936	47.8 %	8.0	433
ADC	79	58.2 %	8.1	487

Roles where we have at least 40 Yone games.

Abilities

PassiveWay of the Hunter

Yone deals magic damage with every second Attack. In addition, his critical strike chance is increased.

QMortal Steel

Thrusts forward, damaging all enemies in a line.

On hit, grants a stack of Gathering Storm for a few seconds. At 2 stacks, Mortal Steel dashes Yone forward with a gust of wind knocking enemies Airborne.

WSpirit Cleave

Cleaves forward, damaging all enemies in a cone. Grants a shield to Yone, the value is increased by the number of champions hit by the swipe.

Spirit Cleave's cooldown and cast time scale with attack speed.

ESoul Unbound

Yone's spirit leaves his body behind, gaining Move Speed. When this ability ends, Yone's spirit is forced back to his body and he repeats a portion of the damage he dealt as a spirit.

RFate Sealed

Yone blinks behind the last champion in a line with a slash so powerful it pulls all enemies hit towards him.

Other Mid champions to know

Most played

Syndra53.0 %Viktor48.9 %Ahri50.4 %Locke50.8 %Yasuo48.9 %Zed51.8 %Sylas48.5 %Akali49.0 %

Strongest (at least 100 games)

Vel'Koz54.3 %Kassadin54.0 %Twisted Fate54.0 %Lux53.0 %Diana52.9 %Katarina52.6 %Anivia52.3 %Aurelion Sol52.1 %

Frequently asked questions

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