Yone vs Ziggs Counter Pick

Hexplosive Minefield turns the ground between the two champions into a toll. The mines slow on contact and deal more when they detonate successively on the same target, and Yone has to cross that field with 175 attack range against 550 before anything he owns matters. The 189-game sample on 16.13.1 is modest, so treat 43.4% for Yone as a direction rather than a verdict.

Satchel Charge is the harder counter. Its delayed explosion knocks him back, so an approach that survives the mines can still be undone by one detonation, and Short Fuse keeps a bonus magic damage attack loaded between casts with its cooldown falling every time an ability is used — the poke never fully pauses. Bouncing Bomb clears waves from beyond his reach, removing the minion cover Soul Unbound normally uses.

Damage type decides the build. Ziggs deals pure magic damage, which makes magic resistance the correct early buy rather than the armor most opponents demand; the 32 base magic resistance Yone starts with will not cover it. In return Ziggs is thin at 21 armor and slow at 325 move speed against 345, and his 2,408 health at level 18 is almost identical to the 2,405 Yone reaches — the fight is decided by whether the crossing happens at all, not by what follows it.