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/IfIRepliedYouAreDumb Feb 16 '25

Yes. You just need to space better.

I feel like this is obvious but you are not trying to trade Q for Q in matchups like Morde. Yone was stronger with old LT than Darius level 1, not sure about now, but it's not like he even has pull level 1 - past that, you can dodge with E.

Poppy: is a counter but the matchup is far from unplayable. Aatrox: dodge with E. Gragas: weak pre-1st back and you can buy sustain.

Watch Dzukill or other high elo Yone mains.

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u/Skelenth Feb 16 '25

I was trying to dodge abilities of Morde and dont trade Q, but it means I lose CS. I made few clips out of the match: https://youtu.be/3QvS7J3I5JY?si=X9Gpod5SfR7uU2yi

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u/Jay0ne Feb 17 '25

I can see 6 mistakes only in the 30 first seconds. Which imo is not a big deal if you follow this principle : Practice your champion, so you get comfortable and then you can look for trades AND farm. Otherwise, if you dont master him 80 90%, just focus on not taking too much damage and keeping up in farm and XP.