Quinn Tips

Sonasaurous·Apr 14, 2015·3 votes·1,824 views

I like playing Quinn, I think she’s really fun to play. I practiced her in a few bot games and practiced last hitting with her in customs until I felt fairly comfortable with her, but when I try to play her in PvP, I lose. Badly.

I’ve been following a few guides and watching gameplay videos on youtube, which certainly do help, but I find that once I fall behind with Quinn it’s very difficult to catch back up.

Any suggestions for how to play her? I've been playing her ADC mostly (teams get so confused when I call top and then disregard my call).

20 Comments

ModWulf HelhammerApr 14, 20153 votes

What to do with Quinn: A very basic, quick guide, developed/typed out right now by me

Build

( if behind, if ahead). Defensive Item is flexible, you can go with any of the standard 3 (possibly also with Zhonya's, as your Q scales off of 50% of AP)

Skill Order:

Q, E, W, Q, E, R, Q, Q, Q, (flexible here, I like to put another point in W for Val, then max E) W, R, E, E, E, W, R, W, W

Tips/How to play Quinn

Quinn has pretty short range (525), one of the lowest for ADCs. The only ones she surpasses have a skill that allows them much higher effective range

Quinn is a feast or famine hypercarry. If you get ahead, you can almost certainly stay ahead due to your innate burstiness. If you get behind though, it's pretty hard to do what you need to. So play safer so you don't get in problems, but not so much that you fall behind
As mentioned above, Quinn has insane burst from her passive. Harrier marks deal 25 -215 (15 + 10 / 15 at each level) (+ 50% bonus AD). Early levels is this pretty high damage, and can help you win some trades.
Your most important items are and . These things provide you with even more burst, and you can almost instantly win trades with anyone except a tank with just these two

Synergizes best with:

Provides you with the lockdown and picks you need to utilize Quinn best with.

Hard matchups:

She has the highest base AA range, 225 higher than yours. She can bully you harder than you bully most other ADCs, so try and avoid this matchup when possible, or pair up with a good support and jungler to help shut her down and get ahead of her.

This guy makes it really hard for you in lane. As you have a short range, you're going to be a bit closer to the minion wave than most ADCs, so that makes that even easier for him to get a good pull on you

SonasaurousApr 16, 20152 votes

This. Just all of this.

Thank you. <3

Black Star 1299Apr 17, 20152 votes

Just adding on to the previous post, I usually like to switch the IE and BT around. Usually build BT first item, as it gives her a better early game advantage on the enemy ADC so out duel them or sustain them. It also allows her to become pretty much immune to poke to make up for her short range.

I also like to upgrade her W second, as really, the only benefits of upgrading e is a one less second cooldown everytime you upgrade it. Quinn's E isn't really that good to be spammed, as it does get you in to close range. It usually is used for that escape/catching up/ extra burst. Her W vision range is really strong, it is a really good ability to find people and be able to fight them in bushes.

Her Passive pretty much guarantees a free crit every 3 seconds/10 seconds. (Depending on if you hit it or not) It actually is a passive that is not very hard to control, it usually targets low hp minions, and then champions. (Usually when I hover my mouse over the champion for a long time, the passive is proced on the champion, but I'm pretty sure thats not how it works)

Quinn is a feast-famine champion, but has insane power in middle game with her ult. If you accidentally feed early game, it is very easy to catch up mid game, with her vision and ult to secure kills. However, if you don't catch up mid game (which is really hard, imo) you pretty much are screwed.

For Quinn, the best burst damage without the ult is passive,Q,AA,E,AA. Usually can be done around a second, and does insane damage whilst making the enemy unable to attack you for a while.

I also find Thresh to be a very hard support to counter, as his e can be interrupt your e midflight, causing you to be at a lot closer range than you ever want to be. It's terrible.

I find Quinn to be really good at countering assassins and most adcs, (Basically the squishy people) However, she has a sorta hard time against tanks, and won't deal as much damage to tanks as most adcs do. (Maybe just me) If you build her botrk build instead of BT to be able to counter tanks, you will fall off late game hard. She needs the burst from her passive and Q. (I never really liked Quinn Top)

ModWulf HelhammerApr 17, 20151 votes

Thanks for the tips, these are pretty useful

Drunk RummateApr 14, 20153 votes

quinn is more of an assassin or even bruiser than an ADC

I'd recommend building full bruiser (botrk + cleaver + tanky) or building full assassin (IE Yoummu LW BT)

depends on your playstyle. you can play her as an ADC but its really not optimal, especially if you compare her to other ADCs

SonasaurousApr 16, 20153 votes

I tried the assassin build, rushing BT and yoummu first. I won lane..and the game. Thank you :)

S H A Y C 0Apr 14, 20152 votes

what a bunch of nubs! Quin top is WAY better than quin ADC.

Gym Leader YakiApr 14, 20152 votes

Quinn is not an ADC and should not be played there. Play her top or mid. Quinn is also not a champion that excels in teamfights. Instead, she's better at splitpushing and skirmishes (small battles).

Furthermore, do not use her ultimate to simply fight. It's preferable if you use it to escape or to catch an opponent. As far as I know, you can't proc the passive mark while in Valor form, which is problematic (can I get a confirmation guys? I'm only about 90% sure). Also, her ult makes her in melee form which is also bad. Always try fighting as Quinn and only Valor for the ult AOE activation or catching up/escaping.

SonasaurousApr 14, 20151 votes

I do find her ult to be a great escape after I pull a "I shouldn't have done that..." moment.

If I were to play her mid, who would I ideally be playing her against? I heard assassins like Akali, Ahri, and Fizz are bad matchups for her.

CindikleApr 14, 20152 votes

Akali probably isn't that bad as long as you have some MR. A pink ward will also help. But your bird form will out duel her.

Ahri I can see being a problem if she times her charm for when you E. She doesn't have much outside of that. Overall a skill matchup.

Fizz is annoying for everyone. Just survive lane and roam better than him.

ZombieNinja WarApr 14, 20154 votes

Quinn is an ADC and a good one at that FYI.

CindikleApr 14, 20153 votes

What about her makes her a good ADC?

The vision that isn't that useful with a good support? The E that puts her on top of incoming CC? The R that makes her a melee champion?

She's more like Jayce than an ADC.

ZombieNinja WarApr 14, 20152 votes

Her Q is a blind so she she can win against strong adc.

her vision with W is almost usless but the passive grants attack speed and movement speed for 3 sec.

Her E is really good lets you do extra damage. yes you can go into cc but but play smart.... you can also backflip over walls if you are good.

Her R is good for running and good for a all in team comp you can flank the enemy adc But it is really risky or you could ult to catch people that run since she is good in 1v1 not much to risk.

SwagOnEmApr 15, 20152 votes

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Her Q is a blind so she she can win against strong adc.

her vision with W is almost usless but the passive grants attack speed and movement speed for 3 sec.

Her E is really good lets you do extra damage. yes you can go into cc but but play smart.... you can also backflip over walls if you are good.

Her R is good for running and good for a all in team comp you can flank the enemy adc But it is really risky or you could ult to catch people that run since she is good in 1v1 not much to risk.

Jeez guyz, I had to comment to this. w useless? are u kidding me? free out-of-jail card from checking bushes FOREVER. if you are good enough u can smell ganks from miles and use w to avoid it, are you trying to tell me that bot lane is 24/7 warded? sometimes u are zoned from warding, sometimes ur out of wards, sometimes ur supp roams, sometimes its checking the 2nd brush for a sneaky jungler and sometimes its a baron,dragon face-hecker. all that being said, know that times when u duel some1 and he enters a brush then u have to facecheck/run away cuz he got the advantage now? well, NOT ANYMORE. It is really obvious u guyz are a rookie Quinn Bawlers, I can not start counting how many times the w movement/vision helped me crucially win a 5v5 not even talking about duels/1v2's.

*Regarding her E.. as a beginner i used to E into all of cc, U just learn to use it effectively as a counter-initiation/chase. it 100% negates nida's jump and dmg and make her basically USELESS vs Quinn, Hope over walls to escape easily (in the 5.6/7 they made the E wall hope even easier), if timed well can negate one of her hardest counters stun - Panth, can disrupt channeling, shud i continue?

All you haters out there - Gauge'Em Valor!.

ZombieNinja WarApr 15, 20151 votes

well i was going off the comment with a really good support lol. her W is still really good in duels in team fights there is usually wards so its not needed as much till people start to run. so ya vision wins games. i love Quinn .

CindikleApr 15, 20151 votes

In most cases of teamfights, you're not going to easily land that Q on the enemy ADC. So you'd better hope the tank that's probably going to dive you is AA reliant.

The W buff is nice, but not reliable. Aside from using E you cannot use it on command like other ADC AS buffs.

E lets you do neat things, sure. But it still requires you to put yourself into danger to use. This is bad for an ADC.

R is bad as an ADC.

Now lets look at Trist: On demand AS buff that can have it's CD lowered by AA'ing the bomb. Can jump over walls without putting herself into danger, can reset this. R can push a whole team away from her. On a lower cooldown.

So she's better at most of what Quinn does. At longer range. And even has an ability to help take towers. While Quinn is probably still better at this with R, Trist can do it much safer.

So Quinn is left with vision.

Again, I'm comparing as ADC. Not Quinn in general. As an ADC, Quinn is not a strong pick.

Kal Vas FlamApr 14, 20152 votes

I play her ADC and do just fine. You can alway out trade the other ADC with her blind. Use her leap misty as an interrupt or as a finisher. It can also be used to leap walls or escape fights look for you tube videos on how to do that.

Anytime an enemy seems to be drawn to a bush use your vision, never be baited again!

Her last hittingn is so easy mode, you can also use your Q to finish off multiple minions at once. It's low mana cost and low CD so don't worry bout wasting it. Always max your Q First. Her ult is great for everything. Getting to a fight, running from a fight, or just as a massive AS steroid in a small skirmish situation. You want more life steal on Quinb than most ADC'd specificaly for winning trades.

I'll post more later when I am on a computer.

Sinister SnailApr 16, 20152 votes

I love doing little "snap duels" with the other adc in lane. Wait for passive mark, auto, E, auto, Q, and sneak another auto if the support can't help. Quinn chunks a lot of hp, and there isn't much the other adc can do about it. Just don't overstay.

Peel Your ADCApr 17, 20151 votes

Try a different champion.

KonidiasApr 18, 20151 votes

She's useless against multiple tanks until Riot tones down the new tank meta. If you want to play Quinn and the enemy team has 2 or more tanks, just dodge.

Best tip I can give.