League of Legends: Wild Rift Yone Crit Build Guide

To build Yone around critical strike items in League of Legends: Wild Rift, rush an attack speed starter item directly into Infinity Edge. Yone's passive ability, Way of the Hunter, doubles the critical strike chance gained from all equipped items. Completing just two critical strike items caps his critical strike reliability at 100%, turning him into a premier melee carry across both mid and baron lanes.

How Yone's Critical Strike Passive Works

Way of the Hunter doubles all incoming critical strike chance from gear. Because of this mechanic, Yone reaches full critical consistency significantly earlier than standard marksmen:

100% Critical Cap: Equipping two 50% critical strike sources or two standard crit items immediately reaches the 100% threshold.
Attack Damage Conversion: Any excess critical strike chance built beyond 100% is converted directly into bonus attack damage, keeping late-game offensive items cost-effective.
Ability Scaling: Mortal Steel (Skill 1) acts as a basic attack that can critically strike. Its cooldown and cast animation time both decrease as Yone gains attack speed.
Shielding Cooldown: Spirit Cleave (Skill 2) also reduces its cooldown and cast time as Yone gains attack speed, providing faster defensive shields in extended combat.

Recommended Item Progression

Prioritize attack speed on your first slot to lower the cooldowns of Mortal Steel and Spirit Cleave before finalizing your critical strike ceiling.

Item Slot	Item Choice	Strategic Purpose
First Core	Phantom Dancer or Blade of the Ruined King	Provides attack speed and mobility, or percentage health shred to smooth out early auto-attack combos.
Second Core	Infinity Edge	Delivers maximum damage amplification by capitalizing on doubled critical strike chance.
Third Core	Immortal Shieldbow or Bloodthirster	Adds physical vamp and lifeline shields to survive burst damage during melee brawls.
Situational	Mortal Reminder	Applies anti-heal and cuts through armor against tanky opponents.
Capstone	Death's Dance or Guardian Angel	Grants damage mitigation or revival when diving backline champions in late-game fights.

Trading in the Laning Phase

Yone uses no mana, allowing you to sustain lane presence as long as you manage your health bar.

Stack Mortal Steel on Minions: Thrust twice on the minion wave to prime the third cast, which transforms Mortal Steel into a forward dash that knocks targets airborne. Avoid walking into melee trades without the airborne charge ready unless your lane opponent's primary abilities are on cooldown.
Engage with Soul Unbound (Skill 3): Cast Soul Unbound to leave your physical body behind while gaining ramping movement speed in spirit form.
Execute the Trade: Dash in with your primed Mortal Steel knock-up, cast Spirit Cleave to generate an instant shield, and weave basic attacks.
Recast to Return: Reactivate Soul Unbound to snap back to your physical body. A portion of the total damage dealt while in spirit form is repeated as true damage upon snapping back.

Teamfight Engagement Sequence

Because full critical strike builds leave Yone vulnerable to burst damage and crowd control, initiate fights from flanks or after enemy disables have been used.

Pre-stack Mortal Steel: Build two stacks on minions or jungle camps before joining an objective contest.
Anchor with Soul Unbound: Activate Soul Unbound from behind terrain or allied frontliners to preserve an escape tether.
Dash into Priority Carries: Cast your third Mortal Steel charge to knock high-priority backline targets airborne.
Buffer Fate Sealed (Skill 4): Immediately cast Fate Sealed during the knock-up. This strikes all enemies along a straight line, teleports Yone behind the last enemy hit, and pulls all struck targets inward.
Clean Up and Snap Back: Sweep grouped targets with Spirit Cleave and critical basic attacks, then recast Soul Unbound to return to your anchor point before taking lethal return damage.

Rune Selection and Counters

Lethal Tempo: The primary keystone for extended combat. Stacking basic attacks against champions grants ramping attack speed, accelerating ability cooldowns in duels.
Fleet Footwork: Use this alternative keystone in difficult matchups against heavy ranged poke to gain lane sustain and reach your two-item core safely.
Defensive Counterplay: If the enemy team features point-and-click crowd control or heavy lockdown, upgrade boots with Quicksilver Enchant or build Guardian Angel early to avoid being eliminated before casting Soul Unbound's return.