By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
the Unforgotten
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (11,043 games).
Yone, the Unforgotten, sends his spirit out of his body with Soul Unbound until it snaps back, and Fate Sealed blinks behind a line of enemies, pulling them with him. Master+ split him between Mid and Top, on Lethal Tempo more than Fleet Footwork, and Blade of The Ruined King into Immortal Shieldbow was his staple. Katarina, Taliyah and Vex beat him most often. Locke and Sylas he was favored against.
FighterAssassin
Patch 26.18 · Mid · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 11,043 games · Preview sample
11,043
Games
Very High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
54.3%Win Rate
Flash
Exhaust60.6%Win Rate
FlashExhaust
This exact page: taken in 12.1% of games·47.6% win rate over 1,335 games.
Attacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.
Killing a target heals you.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.
Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.
After taking damage from an enemy champion heal back some missing health over time.
Fleet Footwork26.9% taken · 49.8% win2,974 games
Grasp of the Undying1.0% taken · 46.3% win108 games
Conqueror0.5% taken · 55.4% win56 gamesPrecision + Resolve95.9% taken · 49.8% win10,588 games
Precision + Inspiration2.4% taken · 54.0% win261 gamesResolve + Precision1.0% taken · 45.7% win105 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Yone's most common path.
QThrusts forward, damaging all enemies in a line.
Cooldown 4s · No cost
WCleaves forward, damaging all enemies in a cone.
Cooldown 14s · No cost
EYone's spirit leaves his body behind, gaining Move Speed.
Cooldown 22/19/16/13/10s · No cost
RYone blinks behind the last champion in a line with a slash so powerful it pulls all enemies hit towards him.
Cooldown 120/100/80s · No costMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QMortal Steel | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WSpirit Cleave | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| ESoul Unbound | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RFate Sealed | R | R | R |
How Yone performs against enemy mid laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Deny the reset — it wants a kill to come back out; a warded exit removes it
Punish the cooldown — Yone is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 8/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
PWay of the Hunter
Yone deals magic damage with every second Attack. In addition, his critical strike chance is increased.
Passive — never cast
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.
No costCooldown 4sRange 450
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.
No costCooldown 14sRange 700
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.
No costCooldown 22/19/16/13/10sRange 25000
RFate Sealed
Yone blinks behind the last champion in a line with a slash so powerful it pulls all enemies hit towards him.
No costCooldown 120/100/80sRange 1000
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Yone in 7 patches. The latest is patch 26.17, published 2026-08-25.
PWay of the Hunter
Similar to Yasuo, Yone has also been an excessively snowball reliant carry, though less so. Bros stay together.
QMortal Steel
Yone's on the weaker side of the roster right now so we think he could use a buff. We know it can feel unfair to simply lose to him right clicking you during his E but we don't want him to be super bursty either, so we're pushing power into his Q, which has more gameplay around predictions and dodging.
Base Stats
Yone won't be much different this year. Considering he doubles how much critical strike chance he gets from each item, he just isn't allowed to crit for full damage.
QMortal Steel
We buffed Yone last patch but due to his tendency to build Doran’s Shield and Second Wind, he didn’t end up as powerful as we would have liked. Since we are happy with the results of reducing his sustain in the last patch, we’re re-adding more early agency through his ability to hit back at his opposition.
Base Stats
Yone's been a low performer for quite a while now, and the upcoming changes to Doran's Shield and Second Wind will likely leave him in a pretty sad state. We'd like to pre-emptively give him some early game power to make up for it.
WSpirit Cleave
We expected last patch to buff Yone, but based on how it went for Yasuo, we expected a much smaller impact to the changes than what we got. As a result, we're throwing in a small Yone nerf to land where we expected to. The intent of this nerf is to make him more reliant on auto-attack uptime, exposing himself to greater risks in the process.
PWay of the Hunter
ESoul Unbound
We're making some Yone adjustments this patch that we hope will be enjoyed by both Yone's players and his opponents. He's copying his younger half-brother in also removing the critical damage reduction on his passive, meaning more damage, more kills, and more Yone wins. On the other side, we're also removing his ability for E to cleanse all types of crowd control during its snap-back. Now he'll still be stunned, rooted blinded, etc. if he's been crowd controlled mid flight, which gives his opponents room to catch up and kill him, or at least require Yone players to be more careful about where they start their assault from.
Riot's data lists 13 looks for Yone with their own art, the base skin included and 72 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Yone | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 620 | =85th | 620 |
| Health per level | 105 | =74th | 104 |
| Base armor | 33 | =52nd | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.6 | =82nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 62 | =50th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.625 | =117th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 3.5% | =11th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 345 | =9th | 335 |
| Attack range | 175 | =87th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 620 | +105 | 2405 | =82nd of 173 |
| Armor | 33 | +4.6 | 111.2 | =60th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Yone, the Unforgotten, is a Fighter and Assassin champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 8/10 for difficulty, 8/10 for attack, 4/10 for defense and 4/10 for magic. Yone casts every ability without a cost and has 13 skins with their own art.
In life, he was Yone—half-brother of Yasuo, and renowned student of his village's sword school. But upon his death at the hands of his brother, he found himself hunted by a malevolent entity of the spirit realm, and was forced to slay it with its own sword. Now, cursed to wear its demonic mask upon his face, Yone tirelessly hunts all such creatures in order to understand what he has become.
