Why is qiyana allowed to be an assassin that has 2 immobilizations that also have high scaling?

PimpStickNasus·8/18/2019, 8:38:12 PM·6 votes·1,922 views

I don't get why an assassin can have a point and click snare with a 144% damage ratio, or a teamfight winning giant aoe stun with a 170% damage ratio. She makes it impossible to play as a squishy champion early game if she gets any sort of lead, and she makes it impossible to try and play around baron or dragon if she isn't super far behind. CC like that on an assassin that has reliable extremely strong burst, and also easy escapes and a way to easily proc duskblade in a fight feels like way too much. It feels to me, like khazix with a stun and a snare honestly.

edit: also no I'm not saying she's braindead easy or anything like that, and I realize her late game is kinda trash outside of R in the jungle, but games don't need to go that long if she gets ahead

16 Comments

Ragnaveil8/18/2019, 8:53:17 PM7 votes

My issue with her is why the fuck does she have % max health damage on her R. Idk what the balance team was thinking, but giving an assassin a % max health damage ability is not healthy, it means she can kill tanks or anything with health pretty quick with one ability vs using multiple. Right now she's just an R bot that if she lands one good R, its a instant teamfight win. Thing travels pretty far and fast.

Cind3rkick8/18/2019, 9:25:08 PM5 votes

She also has surprisingly little mobility, been a small dash and a targetted dash, short of jumping over a wall she has no escape.

Her damage is reliant on combos and so a single hard cc will stop her,giving an easy kill.

Kha is definitely the wrong comparison to make, she is more like Diana or Talon with an insane damage and damage but no way out of the fight.

Death by Glamour8/18/2019, 9:00:48 PM4 votes

She doent have a point and click snare however for an assasin she is a strange one. She has the assasin level damage despite her kit being more similar to a bruiser.

Posui Gart8/18/2019, 8:47:56 PM4 votes

point and click snare

Go pick her once in your game

She makes it impossible to play as a squishy champion early game if she gets any sort of lead

Yeah. Just like most assassins

It feels to me, like khazix with a stun and a snare honestly.

If kha'zix gains a stun and a root, but loses his targeted-no-cd-farming-and-killing Q, thats ok by me

preternatural8/18/2019, 11:30:12 PM2 votes

qiyana is fine lads. wasn't she in serious need of buffs? let her be, she's made it.

only luciano8/18/2019, 11:35:22 PM2 votes

That wanted an another assassin for pro play. Most pros won't play an assassin unless they are insanely broken (Akali) or have CC or 2.

DamSonWhUFndThis8/18/2019, 9:44:30 PM1 votes

they gave Qiana Neeko ratios?