[14.15] Ultimate Qiyana's FULL GUIDE - Master the Empress of the Elements (2024)

Depends on the elo, if you're anywhere bellow around plat the games have zero structure so you have to take advantage of your enemies mistakes and 1v9, there's no real macro here.

For games with a real structure, a good rule of thumb is to simply prioritize your resources and advantages, that is, go where there are minions, signs, towers, take the camps you can from jg, secure vision crontroll, deep wards, etc.

When you are fed your goal changes, you are not just the assassin that kills the carry, you must use well your advantage. Use Edge of Ixtal + Terrashape Brush to put a lot of pressure from flanks, without really doing anything crazy, your mere presence and strength is enough to make them uncomfortable. Her ultimate is a game changer, always use it when fighting around objectives/in the jungle. Always have your team fight around dragon and baron since it can really extend your lead if you are able to get good positioning and stun priority targets.

How to carry?

Qiyana cant close games xD. You just need your team to scale up, remember that you shouldn't take every signle kill as Qiyana.

You should always look at your team. Sometimes you're not the hard carry and should acknowledge that and let someone else carry. Ult works very well for peeling and mass ccing the team and using grass Q to be an annoyance while your adc crushes their team is a viable strat.

The thing I always do in my soloq games, is to take Teleport. I know you want to run Ignite for the kill pressure, but if you’re good enough, you could win Lane or go even in lane without ignite. In mid to late game, split, push and farm and if your team gets caught or fight for no reason, just TP to them. Teleport will save you so many games.

Always look to shove your lane and roam to get both you and your team ahead. It doesn't always have to be lanes, you can always move in the jungle to kill the enemy jungler (unless your lanes dont have priority). You can try to gank with your jungler, as it'll basically guarantee at least a summoner)

What if i am too weak?

If you're behind by advantage, we're in the meta where snowballing is something you can't easily counter, you can only join the snowballing and try to make the most of what you can offer. Try to land good ults and pray that your team can take advantage. If you are using Teleport, abuse the additional damage from your passive and split it as much as you can.

So the first step is to NEVER BE BEHIND. If you die, don't try to kill that person yourself, just try to farm and maybe roam them. the second step would be if you can't beat the route, you should farm 7cs/min and split push after the plates fall. Your enemy in this case will probably be a difficult champion to play against with qiyana, so I recommend you go with First Strike - Resolve and Teleport. This will guarantee you a safer lane focused on farming and scaling. For more information, see the runes section.

If you are split-pushing with no objectives up, wait for enemies to come at you and then run away, you are really mobile and have a lot of tools to kill someone wandering off guard and escape, this is also the way I prefer yellow trinkets and a wing of control when making important splitpuses.

How to Controll vision?

Generally, people tend to use the tactic of pulling 2 waves and warding the enemy chickens on the third wave for example, however, Qiyana rarely pulls her lane and, depending on the comp, you won't leave your tower anytime soon. For this reason, many people create the bad habit of not using their wards. You need to remember that vision control is essential not only for you, but for your entire team.

Especially after your spike with Serrated Dirk, try to start warding, use Control Ward and Stealth Ward to track the enemy jungle and avoid taking stupid ganks.

Try and track your laners ward placement, if you can neutralize his vision output than you took the first step. Then learn when and why through vod reviews. It is different each game. One more tip is to start thinking about warding enemy jungle camps, these deep wards will reveal enemy junglers pathing and force him to get creative, so you can roam or invade without being seen beforehand too. If you are ahead try to detect if enemy wards their own jungle, so you can steal camps and push the advantage.

When lane phase ends, control the vision deeply at points where the ADC or other targets you plan to pick off, it might be good for you to flank. For example, if the enemy team is heading towards the pitch of the dragon, you can use the Oracle Lens to get underneath and wait for the right moment to one shot the back line.

Midgame especially is important this concept, and is when most people suffer to ward. It depends on game, but if you ask yourself which zone are high contested, and you ward that zone now your team will be comfortable fighting on a zone they should be neutral about fighting. That's a win for sure.

Get Stealth Ward when you want to split-push, so you can control the enemy side of the jungle and know who is coming after you, so your team can react in some way for example.