Vex vs Yone Counter Pick

919 games on patch 16.13.1 make this a well-evidenced mid result, and it lands at 58.5% for Vex. Yone is a dash champion by construction: Mortal Steel dashes him forward at two stacks of Gathering Storm, Soul Unbound sends his spirit out with bonus movement speed, and Fate Sealed blinks him behind the last champion in a line. Her passive is written against that.

• Doom ‘n Gloom fears and interrupts dashes, and charges faster whenever a nearby enemy dashes.
• Yone deals physical damage, so armor becomes the correct defensive component rather than the magic resist most mid matchups ask for, and his 33 base armor rising to 111.2 makes him an awkward target in return.
• He runs on Flow rather than mana, so cooldowns rather than a resource bar set his pace, and 345 movement speed against 335 lets him pick the moment.

The failure case is predictable: an empowered ability spent on the wave leaves 590 health and 23 armor standing in front of a champion holding the shield from Spirit Cleave while Way of the Hunter adds magic damage to every second attack. Held for the dash, the same ability turns his engage into a free Shadow Surge reset against a difficulty rating of 8. Her 550 attack range against his 175 means an interrupted approach usually leaves him with no way to arrive at all.