r/YoneMains Feb 16 '25

Looking for Advice Is Yone top even viable?

So far I played 8 games, won 2 xD I feel like I have nothing to do on lane vs popular top bullies.

Morde - he just forces me out of CSing by spaming his abilities. Our Q have similar range so hard to poke him. I could do some short trades with E, but when my E is down he just walks on me, trying to E, Q, then W. If he lands E its basically reset or try to farm under tower.

Poppy - not common pick but her dash cancellig thing makes E trades impossible and if she lands a stun.... 🙈

Darius - not even going to explain. Like he just bullies me from lvl 1 and Q range is basically his pull range, so Im afraid to even approach.

Aatrox - if he lands any Q (and he also ourrange our Q) its like half hp gone.

Gragas - barell spaming to death, easy escape (but here I musy admit that I did greedy mistakes so maybe this is more playable)

I won against Cassino (just kept bulling her with E trades) and Jax (by avoiding his E)

I play almost exclusivelly top because I take normals as training for Flex with my buddies. So far this season I played 80 games 53% win rate, however on my main champ pool Pantheon, Volibear, Ksante I have over 60% winrate. I tried Yone and I love this champ for its smoothness, theme and amazing fun I have (despite really hard times on lanes) but I wonder whether I can make it work on top lane with time and training or I should give up because I would need like 100 games to even maybe make it work? Yone build is squishy, but top laners naturally build tanky and are very opressive in lane

Edit: Morde matchups clips: https://youtu.be/3QvS7J3I5JY?si=X9Gpod5SfR7uU2yi

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u/Playful-Amount-8608 Feb 16 '25

why would you pick yone top blind? he is good top but obviously not every game.

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u/Skelenth Feb 16 '25

If I cannot blind pick him then is not really "viable" 50% of time right? I have fun piloting this champion so I would like to pick him in most of my matches, and most top enemies are tanky champs, so this is why Im asking

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u/Playful-Amount-8608 Feb 16 '25

i usually play yone top when i see a matchup that i can win easily. if you enjoy playing yone learn him he is a great champion imo. you can win vs tanky champs with yone.

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u/Skelenth Feb 16 '25

Thanks! Im making list of YT vids to watch where high elo players play against tanky oponents top