Why is Qiyana so bad?
New champ (last 6 months)
Mid is her BEST win rate Plat+ at 48%
She has Stealth She has Execute She has Mobility She has Stun She has MASSIVE Ult wish stun
So why is she D class bottom of the barrel?
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She has pro play syndrome where Riot's nerfed her because of competitive.
Who would've thought giving an assassin an AoE stun that deals flat damage and % max HP damage wouldn't be broken in competitive.
She can't have stealth, execute and stun at the same time. Her playstyle revolves around her current location and the terrain available. She can't have stun if she is not near the river and she can't have stealth if she isn't near to a bush. Her ult is powerful, but requires good positioning and catching players out of position. She is good, I'd say extremely oppressive in the right hands. She is extremely skill reliant.
Because her dmg sucks, it's all depend on ultimate.
Her base spells are horrible. The ratios are low. Most of the time my biggest struggle with her is that if i'm not 4/0 at 10 min, i become useless because i'm lacking of dmg.
Yes she has a stealth but it's not Shaco stealth, the zone is small.
Mobility... I mean Zed with his shadows + ulti can travel more range than Qiyana with her E + W. She has mobility but stop acting like she is more busted than Talon, Zed, Akali or Diana.
It's a 1s stun on her Q nothing OP...
Yeah, her ulti is broken. That why she is OP and bad at the same time. Everything is on the ulti. Her base spells don't have good dmg so she needs to have this busted ulti to be reliable and even with it, she struggle to have a good win rate.
Her ulti is most of the time predictible unless you fight in jungle. Her ulti is way too much playmaker. For winning a teamfight you must flash E and press R on the wall while bumping your enemies in the wall and pray that they don't flash or something.
If you do it, it's a free win. If you fail, you are useless. I really hate this ultimate, i struggle so much to place it, especially in lanes.
Her W is useless when you approach the bases. You can only use stone element. Bush and River are hard to grab. So basically Qiyana is an assassin that must fight in jungle.
Also her Q is strange. Sometimes it's will go trought minions, sometimes it's blocked by them... Her ulti bumping range is strange... Her W is strange too. it's took me a while to realize you must use it on walls to have stone elements and not on the floor.
And sometimes i still can grab the wrong element. Especially in the River. I want to do stone element, i'm clicking on the wall but it's give me river element again...
**Her strenghts are : **
Impossible to dogde spells, especially EQ combo. Busted ultimate if you can place it. Her stone element execute.
**Her weaknesses are : **
Useless ultimate if you can't place it and useless champ because she relies too much on it. Base spells lack of dmg. Spells aren't well explained or bugged. I don't understand why sometimes my Q can go trought minions and sometimes not, i don't understand why sometimes my W don't put me stone element in river even if i focused the wall. I don't undestand why the enemies are not correctly bumped by my ulti. Sometimes they stop only at the middle of the visual indicator...
She is hard to play correctly, that why her win rate is low. I struggle to use properly the half of my spells even tought i have make like 30 games with her. She has a good potential but it's too hard to exploit it.
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Because she couldn't maintain her current level of power from when she was released and be balanced. She has too much extra utility and flexibility in her kit to also be paired with extremely high damage.
So the first thing they did was nerf her damage levels. At current if you can play her extremely well, that damage nerf will not matter, but for everyone else kind of picking her up and figuring her out that makes her extremely unforgiving.
Was probably the right thing to do as well, but that's just the way it is.
B/c YES she has a mega-overloaded kit, BUT b/c of its complexity it ends up being along the lines of Azir/Kallista where to get the most out of her you really have to understand her kit.
Yeah, her "plat +" winrate is 48%, Her Winrate just in diamond though goes up to almost 50% (49.75%) and in master it jumps up to 51%, showing that the Higher Elo you get, the more players can get out of Qiyana.
She's really hard to play effectively
It takes people who are better than plat to play her properly. High skill ceilings aren't bad