Qiyana is a highly mechanically demanding mid-lane carry. She excels at shutting down carries, roaming, and using snowball potential to close out the games. To make the most out of Qiyana, we are gonna focus on the absolute greatest build for her in this guide.
Best Qiyana Items
Profane Hydra
Profane Hydra is the lethality version of Ravenous Hydra. It’s great for clearing waves, and it’s one of the most powerful items on Qiyana. Having this item equipped will enable us to clear waves exceptionally quickly, which will in turn make us quicker in rotating for fights, and give us the opportunity to roam more.
Hubris
The hubris is one of the most powerful items for snowball lethality assassins. Each time you get a kill, the item will empower you with some extra damage. With each new kill collected, the power of this item will grow, making it do more and more damage as the game progresses.
Serylda’s Grudge
The third essential item for Qiyana is Serylda’s Grudge. It will give us the much-needed bonus damage, ability haste, as well as 30% armor penetration. The armor penetration will be key, as it will enable us to delete carries faster, and it will also make us able to fight tanks properly.
Edge of Night
Edge of Night is another common lethality purchase. Aside from granting us lethality, it will also give us some HP, damage, as well as a shield passive. The shield passive has a relatively slow cooldown, and it is only removed when we get hit by an ability. The shield will soak up the damage and ability effects, however, it will go on a temporary cooldown.
Axiom Arc
My favorite last item to build on Qiyana is the Axiom Arc. For each takedown, the item will significantly reduce our R cooldown. Since Qiyana is one of the most powerful assassins, the cooldown reductions will be quite frequent. I found that this item is especially powerful when we are significantly ahead.
Boots
The best boots purchased for Qiyana are the Ionian Boots of Lucidity. These will do a nice job of reducing our cooldowns, and enable us to play more aggressively. However, in certain tricky matchups, it’s okay to take some more defensive options such as Plated Steelcaps and Mercury Treads.
Runes for Qiyana
- Electrocute
- Sudden Impact
- Eyeball Collection
- Treasure Hunter
- Presence of Mind
- Cut Down
The keystone that works best on Qiyana is Electrocute. It’s easy to proc in the early game, and the damage from it adds up over time. The next rune we will need to take is the Sudden Impact, which will increase the damage that follows after our dashes.
We will then take the Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter to deal more damage and generate more gold per each unique Takedown. Finally, we will take Presence of Mind for early Mana Sustain, and Cut Down to deal more damage to tankier enemies.
Final Thoughts
Qiyana is a high-skill powerful mid-lane carry. She benefits the most from playing a full lethality build paired with the Electrocute keystone. Some of the core items for this build are the Profane Hydra, Hubris, and Serylda’s Grudge.
To make the most out of this build it is important to pay attention to the map, rotate quickly to all the winnable skirmishes, and roam as much as possible. I’ve had the most success by frequent roams to bot lane, where I am able to generate enough gold to single-handedly carry games.