How to Shred Tanks as Yone in League of Legends: Wild Rift

To beat heavy tanks as Yone in League of Legends: Wild Rift, rush Blade of the Ruined King before building critical strike and armor penetration, and rely on short trade cycles using Soul Unbound.

Tanks in the Baron lane typically rush early armor and health items such as Plated Steelcaps, Bami's Cinder, and Warden's Mail. Rushing pure critical strike items like Phantom Dancer or Infinity Edge leaves your damage blunted against early armor stacking. Blade of the Ruined King counters this immediately by dealing percentage-current-health physical damage on hit while providing the attack speed, attack damage, and life steal needed to sustain through trades.

Core Anti-Tank Item Build

After securing Blade of the Ruined King, transition into critical strike and targeted penetration to match the tank's defensive scaling.

Leveraging Mixed Damage and Spirit Cleave

Yone naturally bypasses pure armor stacking through his passive and ability mechanics:

• Way of the Hunter: Every second basic attack converts 50 percent of the strike's damage into magic damage. Because champions like Malphite, Sion, and Ornn prioritize early armor against physical skirmishers, this passive ensures that half of your alternate swings bypass their main defensive stat.
• Spirit Cleave: Sweeps in a frontal cone to deal maximum health percentage physical and magic damage while granting you a temporary shield. The ability's cooldown and cast animation scale with bonus attack speed. Cast Spirit Cleave on cooldown during extended fights to scale both your offensive damage and defensive shielding against high-health targets building Sunfire Aegis or Heartsteel.

The Soul Unbound Trading Sequence

Do not commit to stationary, prolonged basic-attack brawls against tanks with high-damage retaliation tools, such as Sett or Ornn. Instead, use Soul Unbound to burst them within the crowd control duration of your knockup, then snap back before they can retaliate. Soul Unbound stores a percentage of all damage dealt during your spirit form and repeats it as true damage upon return, which cannot be mitigated by armor or magic resistance.

1. Charge Mortal Steel: Strike minion waves twice with Mortal Steel to prepare your third cast (the whirlwind thrust and dash).
2. Activate Soul Unbound: Cast the ability from behind your minion wave or near your turret to leave your mortal body in safety.
3. Engage with Mortal Steel: Dash forward with the whirlwind to knock up the enemy tank.
4. Cast Spirit Cleave: Use the ability immediately while the target is airborne to apply maximum health percentage damage and gain a shield.
5. Land Two Basic Attacks: Hit the enemy while your shield absorbs incoming minion damage.
6. Recast Soul Unbound: Manually reactivate the ability to snap back to your starting location as soon as the target recovers from the knockup. This triggers the stored true damage mark and prevents the tank from landing counter-attacks.

Managing Wave Spacing, Ganks, and Teamfights

Tanks gain advantages by chaining crowd control to lock you down for their jungler. Counter this playstyle by managing your spacing and cooldowns:

• Poke at Maximum Range: Use the tip of Mortal Steel's thrust to poke champions like Shen or Maokai without entering their point-blank grab or crowd control ranges.
• Reserve Escapes: Avoid burning your third Mortal Steel dash or your ultimate, Fate Sealed, solely for wave clear. Keep them available to dash through terrain or escape when targeted by enemy ganks.
• Teamfight Priorities: In five-on-five teamfights, tanks often carry attack speed slows like Frozen Heart or damage reflection from Thornmail. Rather than focusing the tank directly in teamfights, look for flank angles using Soul Unbound and Fate Sealed to dive enemy backline carries. Once the enemy damage dealers are dead, you can safely clean up the remaining frontline alongside your team.