What's the consensus on Qiyana?

nut on mic·Jul 15, 2019·2 votes·4,223 views

Is she giga-broken or trash?

I feel like her damage is insane, her stealth is broken, her CDs are too low, but her winrate is abysmal....

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preternaturalJul 15, 20197 votes

play style: variable rotation based assassin

dmg: skill gated but plentiful

mobility: almost too good

place in meta: anti-assassin/anti-diver assassin (so she kills anything squishy but also does well into picks that want to do what she does, it's weird.) also a bit of an anti-bruiser for some picks. so for instance she does really well into renekton which i still feel is weird, she does well into camille which kinda makes sense thematically, she does not do well into morde at all though who knows what changes the patch will bring, and she can stale mate some juggs or tanks like malph or darius. she doesn't like playing into stat sticks is the short version, anything else she's quite comfortable with and the very popular assassin picks are mostly skill matchups. she absolutely eviscerates anything that doesn't have hp and armor when she get's items though, maybe her base dmg's get increased and her scaling is brought down? but then she's even harder to survive in the early game so...yeah, we'll get to that.

skill cap: easily one of the highest in the game.

skill floor: medium/high somewhere there, also one of the highest in the game.

overpowered, underpowered or broken? eh, definitely not underpowered, or overpowered given her current state, but she is certainly broken. stay with me now. she's broken because she will likely have a volatile balance cycle and cause plenty of frustration around the community, she is not particularly weak or strong in the current meta given her numbers as they are, but she is incredibly useful to have on a knowledgeable team. there can only be more knowledgeable teams as time keeps on slipping slipping slipping, into the future~ that aside she can be stupid potent given a winning lane and able hands, haven't seen a champion that can assert themselves the way she does in teamfights around terrain, it literally win's games. also her stealth Q might get nerfed cause it's interaction with duskblade is dumb. what to buff on her? i don't know, i wouldn't buff her i would look for bugfixes, some instances her empowered Q lands and doesn't register, sometimes the EQ doesn't work as advertised but that's likely a ping thing on my end, ult should maybe have a larger knockback portion(?)

as you can see i'm quite reluctant to give her more damage, best wait for the player base to get comfortable with her.

IxtaliKingJul 16, 20191 votes

Beautifully articulated +1

A Sutpid IdotJul 15, 20194 votes

Seems like yasuo in S6. Super broken but everyone throws late

KABLUMPJul 15, 20191 votes

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Is she giga-broken or trash?

I feel like her damage is insane, her stealth is broken, her CDs are too low, but her winrate is abysmal....

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