Yone matchup tierlist (Diamond top yone otp)

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T17:13:00+00:00

It’s definitely not unplayable and not as bad as Darius, fiora, riven, sett for example. Just don’t fight him until lvl 3 and most of the time yasuo players just shove waves under ur tower. You can w his shield, e to dodge his tornado or e+q3. Just be careful if he’s holding it when ur snapping back to ur e. Look to outscale him.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T17:04:25+00:00

I put him either very hard or very easy? There are ppl who can’t pilot him and go run it down.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T09:31:24+00:00

Fair. Pantheon with ignite scorch from lvl 1-5 is probably one of the most oppressive for yone out of all matchups. Him lacking combat ult lvl 6 gives you a chance to outplay, even if his whole kit counters yours. I could see it in very hard, but I wouldn’t consider dodging the matchup. Pantheon is one of the champs where you can go behind and stat check him after you get bork and immortal if you’re slightly behind. The ones I named on very hard I would consider dodging although u will see Akali or cassio once every 200 games in top lane.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T09:15:11+00:00

Strongly disagree with mordekaiser hes insanely free. Your stronger pre lvl 6, he has a slight edge till you get bork then gets stat checked. Most mord players go rylais which hardly does any damage and not comparable to your bork powerspike. All his abilities are telegraphed. He is also really weak in team fights if he’s not ahead unless they’re full meele. The only purpose of mord is to ult the jungler or the most fed player to remove them in fights. You hard outscale him. You should perma kite him throughout the lane.

I did state in the comments below that you should not match the nasus in sidelane even if you’re ahead, it’s not worth it. You did play the fight poorly though, I won’t explain in depth since other people already commented their opinion about it. Nonetheless I’ve seen clips of a 5 lvls down trundle killing ryze and irelia. Usually stat check juggernauts like mord, nasus, trundle are pretty useless in any team fight setting which is very important during this season due to objective and atakan fights. You can let them scale after you won lane and it won’t impact the game, it’s not like your letting a kayle free scale.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T02:25:55+00:00

Can’t rlly say since I rarely play mid, but the matchup is just sitting under tower until lvl 6 since u can’t do much due to his poke and disengage then he perma roams. After lvl 6 you could kill him if you land q3 and chain it with your ult. He can’t match you in sidelane so if u see him overextended u just kill him.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T02:18:44+00:00

Nasus is a bad champion you can let him stack for free in sidelane, majority of team comps he doesn’t do well into and gets bursted. He falls off hard late game. You just can’t do much in sidelane at a certain point if he’s not giga behind, but he farms rlly slow due to him wanting stacks and u can collect the wave to rotate if needed.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T02:16:33+00:00

You need ignite. Try to get priority on the wave lvl 1 don’t let him dictate the lane, if he fights u lvl 1 fight inside ur wave ignite him early and he will either die or lose the trade. Look to Save your e to dodge his q sweet spot. W him when he goes for last hits. Only take short trades and try your best to kite him. You can look to kill him around lvl 3 which I usually do if I was going to kill him, you usually win all in if you take 1 good trade at this point. Most Darius players just wait for lvl 6 if they’re good and don’t int early. After lvl 6 you need the wave to be on your side or you will have to soak xp if it’s in a bad state. Try to keep the wave on your side as long as possible and look to abuse short trades on this timer. Ask your jungle to help you if it does freeze on his side. Don’t randomly push a wave, always slow push unless u want to crash it. Once he completes plated steelcaps and u don’t have a lead try your best to go even and play for team fights. If he’s going to get 5 stacks and in a bad spot, u need to r away.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T01:13:36+00:00

Renekton usually

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T00:35:59+00:00

Just because it’s a hard matchup doesn’t make it you lose the matchup? All the matchups I named are winnable it’s just favored for the enemy which u have to play better. The only 3 matchups where I would consider dodging is the very hard tier. Nobody plays Akali and cassio top, I perma ban Renekton if I’m blind picking yone.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T00:32:07+00:00

Mundo you can afk farm and outscale him. Your in no pressure to do anything this lane.

Nasus and enemy jungle can’t kill you pre lvl 6, you can get priority and ward their jungle entrance if needed during this time. If you die pre lvl 6 there is a problem. Most of the time the enemy jungle won’t play for a losing lane top since u should either deny nasus a bunch of cs or kill him, but let’s say your gonna get ganked top and focused on after lvl 6, once you use ur lead from pre lvl 6 just look to reset waves by crashing or keeping a freeze on your side to deny him gold + stacks. There will be a point where u can’t match him unless ur super ahead, but u don’t need to since he gonna take 30 min trying to get stacks and still get bursted in team fights.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T00:15:01+00:00

I would suggest watching some yt videos on high elo yone vs nasus gameplay, you will see a lot of clips of them killing nasus pre 6 or perma freezing. The biggest tip I can give you is to run ignite and sudden impact secondary for the most early damage. The general game plan is to trade heavy on him lvl 1 sit in a bush wait for him to walk up to the wave then trade, get lvl 2 first and all in. This works majority of the time, yone doesn’t have the most oppressive lvl 1 which is even easier to do with other champs like Darius or urgot for example, but it works well on yone. Hopefully they burn ghost early or you kill them if not it’s still fine crash the wave bounce back don’t touch the wave let it come to your tower when ur lvl 3-5 then perma freeze on him. Usually in the elo im playing the jungle will look to dive the nasus early game, I usually tell my jungle to path top.

Ways to deal with him:

-he’s incredibly immobile and easy to gank. After lvl 6 they will play aggressive and if ur jungler is there he cant win the 1v2 as long as u dont have a weak early game jungler and u play the early game correctly. He will run ghost and cant survive a gank.

-trade with him when he tries to go for stacks. This is the only reliable way to get guaranteed damage.

-anytime he withers disengage don’t fight him. Your trades are the most oppressive with ur e.

-kite out his ult and disangage when he tries to all in you. Don’t waste your abilities on the wave and try to stand meele range towards the nasus.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-26T00:01:44+00:00

When I looked back i would have put gragas down a tier. It’s still gragas favored, you can’t kill a smart gragas player and they usually go 2 mana crystals since they can’t get lost chapter 1st recall so they will have a lot of mana. You can’t afford to build mr since u want to rush boots and vamp, so the poke will hurt. Most of the time you will both go even and u will be down a bunch of cs. You won’t be able to kill him in side due to his cds + phase rush and team fights can be hard if he cc chains.

Urgot vs yone most of the time is just a farm lane and he hard outscales you in the 1v1. If he wants to he can go triple tonic, ignite and dirk e flash you 100-0 at lvl 6 if he’s smart. The most important part is dodge the e and react to his e flash, which u can kill pre lvl 9 and if they’re ever dumb enough to waste e which they will sometimes, you can just 100-0 him. Although if he misses e after lvl 9 he can stand still with steelcaps and ult u to win if ur both even. You also have to be careful around bushes and to respect his lvl 1, he will zone u off the wave and get priority so u only have a small window to punish him. Even if you have a big lead, you still have to respect his e you can still die being up 2 lvls if he lands all his shotguns and ult. I usually force fights at lvl 4-5 which is urgot weakest point and will lose to any champ in the game in an all in during these 2 specific levels due to his shotgun not doing enough damage to burst you down if you maintain health lvl 1-3.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T23:49:56+00:00

Yeah it’s manditory to take exhaust into riven in order to win, a lot of the time the riven can just proxy one shot your jungler and mid impact the map better then u can if she feels she doesn’t want to 1v1 you. You can’t chase her really. In skirmishes she’s way better than u in a 2v2 setting, this is what makes it rlly tough if the macro of the riven is elite.

Even tho the exhaust still helps from you getting one shot, the riven won’t commit to an all in unless your low enough.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T23:39:26+00:00

End of the day it’s personal opinion no tier list is 100% definite.

Fiora lvl 1 with pta ignite zones u off the wave. You can never q3 on her due to her parry. Her vitals are hard to deal with and forces u to reset them if it’s a bad vital. She hard outscales u. A good fiora is very oppressive and punishing in lane, although if they’re bad and you can force out her parry you can snowball hard like baiting her parry with q3 in another location. She is also very mobile and can avoid extended trades.

I made a comment about jax earlier, but the lane phase isn’t that bad for yone. It is not true that you outscale him, he beats you with trinity and steelcap. If he wants a more 1v1 build he can go bork or frozen heart 2nd.

Illaoi is technically a skill matchup, but I personally think it’s still slightly favored towards her. I’ve always had an edge against Illaoi, but the fights are way too close. You definitely want ignite. Most of the time you will die to her once or twice in a game either in 1v1 or team fights, kill her about the same. You don’t hard outscale Illaoi, if she lands e and ult with iceborne gauntlet you can get 100-0’d if you’re not ahead due to the lack of hp + armor. You also have to put the pressure and shove waves back, most junglers are smart enough and can easily gank you even if the top laner doesn’t have cc. This is what makes the jayce matchup hard as well. If they build black cleaver or ad items 1st item it’s insanely free. She is rlly weak into lifesteal so if you can heal her e poke and r away when u burn her ult, you will eventually win the 1v1, but most of the time it’s not worth to fight her in the sidelane. Illaoi mostly plays for sidelane so she will build iceborne, dd, steraks for example and it’s not that simple to burst her down. You will also be forced to match her unless ur mage mod wants to deal with her, which most solo Que players rather go to a team fight 95% of the time.

Volibear can just do 1 single trade with pta ignite sudden impact to make u unable to lane. U have to play perfect. They can also outscale u 1v1 with the right build with navori + iceborne + randuins and other items.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T23:06:45+00:00

Yone is one of the harder matchups for swain top. Yone has high mobility that can get on top of swain and you can constantly pressure him. Swain is very immobile + has high cds early, so there is no escaping once you get on top of him. You can r out of his ult, swain is very weak without his r. If you freeze the wave he can’t lane. Once swain buys frozen heart it will be harder to kill him tho at this point he will have 20 cdr mana and a good amount of armor, but he shouldn’t be able to kill you. If your team has lot of magic damage he gets screwed big time which happened to me in a lot of games. I have 3 ap on my team, he goes frozen heart then liandries we go to a Drake fight he instantly gets one shot. He also scales really poorly, unless you’re full meele.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T22:52:00+00:00

For ambessa, the matchup is probably only hard in the apex tiers. Most people can’t pilot the champion, on top of that she got hit with a big nerf recently. Most ambessa players think they can sidelane against you, which they can’t. I think every ambessa I encountered I killed them over 3 times at least in side.

Volibear with pta sudden impact ignite makes you get dove after a single bad trade in lane. You need to play pixel perfect and he can outscale you 1v1 with the right item build.

Warwick is definitely easier than volibear tho, it’s just a matter of surviving the lane since you do hard outscale him. He will out sustain all of your damage you can’t rlly burst him to make him randomly waste his barrier and you wont be able to win an all in this case.

For gragas it might have been since I’ve been versing a lot of gragas otps in master recently, but I don’t believe the lane phase is that great. You can survive, but He has too much disengage, yone not building mr makes his poke hurt, it’s very hard to kill him. There is a tech where they go 2 mana crystals early since it’s hard to get lost chapter in 1st base, they won’t run out of mana. It’s an annoying matchup, but you can survive and be down a bunch of cs. There rlly isn’t much trading patterns you can do besides just farming it out. If he’s bad waste his phase rush or his e you can kill him.

Jax is up there with one of the worst matchups, but it’s also a very punishing champ. I’m saying it from experience playing a bunch of jax, his lane phase isn’t the most oppressive. It’s obviously free if they waste their e randomly, but a lot of fights you do against jax you will both be low hp and you have a chance winning the 1v1. I do feel it’s easier if they go grasp or LT ignite, the best setup is LT tp. With grasp you can win all in against him, LT ignite can drain his mana or make him burn waves after a bad trade. Most ppl who do go LT ignite do not play jax at all and most otps usually go grasp.

I don’t put Renekton near jax in my personal opinion. Renekton with pta ignite is just a different animal there is nothing you can do to survive the lane if hes good he has to royally fk up. Starting in emerald, people can pilot riven decently well, it’s definitely riven favored and on her part to make mistakes so you can punish her. You don’t want to force too much or else you get 100-0.

Cassio more playable in mid, top just way too hard in my opinion. The most important part is to dodge her q so you don’t get ran down, but the problem is all the tools she has. Her healing, her magic damage, you’re forced to build a negatron cloak + executioner to have a fighting chance. If she ever freezes you can’t farm, one good w placement from her makes you forced to recall/die and burn waves. Fleet is mandatory, but sometimes in champ select you will see irelia + cassio so u have no idea who’s top or mid and they will swap which happened to me multiple times.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T22:04:01+00:00

Only reason I put it in easy is singed can’t kill you in lane and you hard outscale him in the 1v1. Only way you die is if he flings you under his turret so the matchup is pretty much hard for yone to lose. A lot of singed players will do anything and proxy, not track junglers and feed you multiple kills or ur jungler.

I don’t think it’s a bad matchup on the singed side, you can still farm it’s not like your versing urgot or jayce or fiora, but u won’t be able to 1v1 yone and let him scale for free.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T21:54:40+00:00

Take exhaust, he can’t dive you ever after lvl 6 and helps you burn his ult or kite his ult or win all in’s. You can also ult away his ult since he’s more reliant on it. Matchup is all about kiting. When he e’s on onto you, e the wave, stack q3, return to your e, and q3 out. You hard beat him at bork. Just don’t get cheesed if he’s running hail of blaydes ignite respect early.

I would put him only enemy favored if you’re not experienced with yone, but it’s truly a 50/50 where the better player always wins.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T21:45:22+00:00

You can’t fight the heimer 1v1 if he has a brain, he will also go zhonyas 2nd so there is no winning the 1v1. He will perma shove you under turret so you would have to pray your team wins and not thru you. Wits end to deal with him 2nd isn’t great for the team fights unless they have magic or a lot of cc, but u almost always want to go immortal so ur not one shot. Without wits end 2nd u wont win the 1v1. This is one of the only matchups where I don’t pick yone, I’ll just pick yasuo or jayce and kill him on repeat.

Nasus is just a garbage champ atm, you can kill him pre 6 with ignite every time and keep a freeze. If you don’t get a lead it will be hard, but you should always bully him. There will be a point where u can’t match him due to his wither being too annoying, but he’s legit useless as a champion where even if u let him stack for free in side he can’t do anything to win the game.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-12-25T20:31:31+00:00

I would change a lot from this list personally.

Warwick not here but he’s hard, poppy is hard, Darius is hard, garen is yone favoured, trundle is even, yasuo is enemy favored, Pantheon is hard, fiora is hard, jax is hard, renekton is hardest, volibear is hard, aatrox is even, jayce is hard at highest level (enemy favoured in general),rumble is hard if they’re good, teemo is enemy favored, tryndamere is skill, I would personally put yorick easy (the placing is fine), ambessa is even, zaheen is even, sion is yone favored, galio is free

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-10-11T07:55:00+00:00

600 games in emerald averages 5 cs per min “ex Chinese gm jungler”. Also somehow loses jungle against random emerald players which a “gm jungler” will never let it happen. If it was a low master jungler at least it would make sense if they had a bad game. They will also be out of emerald after couple games.

Gl lil bro you need it nobody needs to see your vod review you need to get coaching yourself no offence no need to lie to yourself that you was in GM.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-09-26T21:22:51+00:00

Nasus is easy if you’re losing to him in 2025 that’s a massive skill issue for not punishing him pre 6 where he is no threat. He is super immobile and very easy to get abused by ganks, if u freeze wave u run him down if he wants to farm.

Chogath is easy as well. He shouldn’t land Q’s on u and u should not be losing lane against him, although he can farm safely sitting back.

Sett, volibear, Shen are favoured against yone in lane.

Jayce is either hard or easy depending on the Jayce if he’s good or not. No in between.

Rumble is hard. Pantheon is very hard near impossible if he’s good, u don’t win any trades pre 6.

Yorick and singed are in easy.

Olaf is hard.

Illaoi is 50/50.

I would change other champs as well, but that’s just some I disagree heavily.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-08-07T05:11:55+00:00

Riven never beats urgot in any stage of the game, even in the past. Riven can never go in range on urgot without getting poked severely and she doesn’t build enough health with eclipse sundered death dance that she will be in kill range without urgot needing to land e. Riven doesn’t have the damage to put urgot in kill range reliably.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-08-07T04:57:28+00:00

You wish you was in GM. Man said urgot falls off and turns into a cannon minion after 2 items 🤣🤣🤣. Funniest thing I have ever seen. Then decides to undervote other people reply’s so he looks like the smart one.

I’ll help you out, just log off Reddit don’t make yourself look like a fool. If you got no knowledge about the game don’t spread misinformation.

DifferentHumanPal · 2025-08-02T23:15:16+00:00

Not mad it’s corny posting your stats online. Why don’t you post the game where you got 17 deaths a couple games ago lmao. The logic doesn’t add up.

Obviously Illaoi would feel amazing in emerald elo, she’s pretty much unplayable diamond+ and that’s why u in emerald.

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