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Qiyana Guide
Patch 26.19 Iron-Emerald·Difficulty:
Qiyana is a lethality assassin who wins by appearing from the fog and deleting one carry before they can react. She is gold hungry and lives on her item spikes, so the runes are the gold runes and the plan is simple: never take a fair fight, fight the moment an item completes, and base the moment the next one is affordable. Before level 6 you gank with E into Q and lean on the river element to slow and cut them off. From level 6 the kill is R into a wall, cast during your E dash, and the build is there to make that one combo lethal: Voltaic Cyclosword, Bastionbreaker, Edge of Night, then Serylda's Grudge and Guardian Angel.
Runes
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Cash Back and Treasure Hunter are there because every item you finish early is a fight you win
- •Your combo plus Smite out-damages a Smite on its own, so a dragon or grubs you did not start can still be yours
Skill Priority
Q
›W
›E
Q
1
·
3
·
5
W
·
2
·
·
·
E
·
·
·
4
·
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:03, and by 2:56 once you are Master
- •Clear top to bot
- •Start Q, then W, and never press Q twice on a camp: hold the second Q until W is back, because W brings Q straight back
- •The only time to spend both Qs is to finish a camp or a kill
- •Full clear to level 4 before the first gank, E comes at 4, and your usual gank is W to take the river element on the way in, then E into Q so the first Q cannot miss, attack, and W forward to take rock from a wall and cut them off
- •Start fights with the river or grass element and finish with rock, so every fight gets two passive procs
- •A bruiser jungler like Lee Sin or Xin Zhao at full health in the river beats you before level 6, so only commit when they are already low
- •Hecarim and Cho'Gath are your two worst jungle matchups, farm and track them instead of fighting them
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Core Build Examples
Default
vs heavy AP
Profane Hydra first
Umbral Glaive first
vs heavy armor
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Press Tab before every fight: if your items look even with a bruiser like Jarvan IV or Rek'Sai, they win the 1v1, so do not take it
- •Lethality items are cheap and hit hard the moment they finish, so fight on the item, and never walk around sitting on the gold for one
- •Voltaic Cyclosword is the first spike, look for the first kill the moment it is done
- •R into a wall is the kill: cast R during your E dash so it comes out as you arrive, then W to take rock from the wall and close the gap
- •After a kill, take the tower or the objective, Bastionbreaker makes the tower after a pick fast
Situational
vs Armor stackers
Good Vs
vs AD assassins
Good Vs
vs heavy AP
Good Vs
vs point and click lockdown
Good Vs
vs shields
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
Late Game
4+ items
- •Sweep the brushes and flank from out of vision, a First Strike that procs on a random minion or a frontliner is a wasted combo
- •Flash onto the carry to open the fight, it lands First Strike and gives them no time to react
- •When you cannot one-shot anyone, stay alive in grass: Q in the stealth, W inside it to take grass again, and Q again as the stealth runs out
- •That chain needs an item or two of ability haste, and it buys you time for your cooldowns and your team
- •Guardian Angel lets you go all in on the carry, commit fully or do not go
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Qiyana Guide
Patch 26.19 Iron-Emerald·Difficulty:
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Runes
Skill Priority
Q
›W
›E
Q
1
·
3
·
5
W
·
2
·
·
·
E
·
·
·
4
·
Core Build Examples
Default
vs heavy AP
Profane Hydra first
Umbral Glaive first
vs heavy armor
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Situational
vs Armor stackers
Good Vs
vs AD assassins
Good Vs
vs heavy AP
Good Vs
vs point and click lockdown
Good Vs
vs shields
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Cash Back and Treasure Hunter are there because every item you finish early is a fight you win
- •Your combo plus Smite out-damages a Smite on its own, so a dragon or grubs you did not start can still be yours
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:03, and by 2:56 once you are Master
- •Clear top to bot
- •Start Q, then W, and never press Q twice on a camp: hold the second Q until W is back, because W brings Q straight back
- •The only time to spend both Qs is to finish a camp or a kill
- •Full clear to level 4 before the first gank, E comes at 4, and your usual gank is W to take the river element on the way in, then E into Q so the first Q cannot miss, attack, and W forward to take rock from a wall and cut them off
- •Start fights with the river or grass element and finish with rock, so every fight gets two passive procs
- •A bruiser jungler like Lee Sin or Xin Zhao at full health in the river beats you before level 6, so only commit when they are already low
- •Hecarim and Cho'Gath are your two worst jungle matchups, farm and track them instead of fighting them
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Press Tab before every fight: if your items look even with a bruiser like Jarvan IV or Rek'Sai, they win the 1v1, so do not take it
- •Lethality items are cheap and hit hard the moment they finish, so fight on the item, and never walk around sitting on the gold for one
- •Voltaic Cyclosword is the first spike, look for the first kill the moment it is done
- •R into a wall is the kill: cast R during your E dash so it comes out as you arrive, then W to take rock from the wall and close the gap
- •After a kill, take the tower or the objective, Bastionbreaker makes the tower after a pick fast
Late Game
4+ items
- •Sweep the brushes and flank from out of vision, a First Strike that procs on a random minion or a frontliner is a wasted combo
- •Flash onto the carry to open the fight, it lands First Strike and gives them no time to react
- •When you cannot one-shot anyone, stay alive in grass: Q in the stealth, W inside it to take grass again, and Q again as the stealth runs out
- •That chain needs an item or two of ability haste, and it buys you time for your cooldowns and your team
- •Guardian Angel lets you go all in on the carry, commit fully or do not go