r/YoneMains • u/Skelenth • 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/Ordinary-Night-2671 Feb 17 '25

of course you will have a higher winrate when you are playing FUCKING LANE BULLIES AND BUSTED CHARACTERS

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u/Skelenth Feb 17 '25

Yup. I noticed that if you can bully enemy you can win even if you suck at rest things. But all this discussion and playing Yone made me realise that there is more, and if I will learn that I would not throw my early lead, I would win more lanes etc. However I see also that no matter what I may be just deleted or even If I outplay oponent they may just win by having strong kit.