Qiyana's mid lane performance among experts is one of the strongest in the game and is due for a nerf. We're happy that she's a lethal assassin, we just want to make her less generically strong.

Qiyana has been one of the clear winners from the recent changes to Profane Hydra and Axiom Arc. She's been taking over in both mid lane and jungle especially in elite play. We're hitting her with some nerfs that'll take her down a notch in both roles.

Qiyana's recent buffs were quite potent, bringing her into the spotlight as arguably the strongest champion in the game and driving her ban rate up significantly. This queen has been shining too brightly, in both mid and jungle, so to take the attention off of her (and so that her players can play her) we're bringing her power down across the board.

Qiyana's recent buffs were quite potent, bringing her into the spotlight as arguably the strongest champion in the game and driving her ban rate up significantly. This queen has been shining too brightly, in both mid and jungle, so to take the attention off of her (and so that her players can play her) we're bringing her power down across the board.

Qiyana is already decently strong in the right hands, but she's quite unpopular and sports a low ban rate unfitting for a queen like her. To help her out, we’re buffing her early damage on her Q and making her early game jungle clear and auto weaving feel a bit cleaner by buffing her W attack speed.

Qiyana’s not performing very well currently. Considering she almost always starts with a Long Sword, she doesn’t have the resilience to successfully lane and then push her advantages. We’re increasing her early sustain to give her more of an edge (of Ixtal) in the early game. We also want to make sure she can keep up in late game damage output, so we’re also bumping a bit of her W ratio.

We missed Qiyana in our assassin sweep last patch so her time is now. Qiyana is in an odd spot where she's both very Elite-skewed and late-game skewed, which doesn't normally happen. We want to give her a much better laning phase, so we're trading some of her late-game burst to get her there. As another goal, we want to give her some fringe jungle capabilities as well, though we anticipate there's more work to do before she's truly good there.

Qiyana is a very high-skill-cap champion who only performs above average in very high-skill brackets. We don't expect to truly change that fact, but we'd still like to make her a little more forgiving to play. We noticed that she's a pretty frequent Manamune purchaser, so with these changes we'd like for you to have your cake and eat it too. If you don't buy Manamune, you have more mana to play with, and thus, don't need Tear as badly. However, if you do buy Manamune, having more total mana means more bonus AD and ability damage. So everyone wins! Except maybe her opponents. They might lose.

Qiyana, like other roaming mid laners, has been struggling to find success recently. We’re introducing a bit more damage into her kit and some cooldown on her mobility spell so she’s able to move around the map a bit more.

Qiyana’s been the empress of the Rift lately, partly due to a bug which allowed her to proc her passive twice with First Strike. We’ve removed that bug and are nerfing First Strike which should result in an overall nerf, but also taking a little bit of power out of her passive so that she’s a bit less oppressive.

The empress continues to be a little too oppressive in higher levels of play, so we’re reducing the AD scaling on her passive to curb her waveclear and snowball potential.

Qiyana is dominating Elite play quite a bit right now. We're reducing how much time she gets to spend being invisible in a fight, which should help lower some frustration when playing against the Empress of the Elements.

Qiyana is too strong in Elite play but weak in Average play, so we're moving some power around instead of straight nerfing her. Elite players are very efficient at capitalizing on early leads and quickly snowballing their gold, so we're trading in some of Qiyana's early power and gold scaling for some level-based power that should be more available to the average Qiyana player.

Before 11.18, Qiyana's E+Q auto aim combo used to be undodgeable. We changed her E+Q targeting mechanism last patch so that enemies could escape by dashing or flashing away. However, that version of the combo generously treated every enemy dash as an attempt to dodge Qiyana's combo, and it turns out this isn't always the case. A dashing enemy might be headed towards the same direction or even the exact same location as Qiyana's E. So in scenarios where the dashing enemy ends up still within Qiyana's default attack range, she'll maintain her auto aim. Lastly, Qiyana jungle is not quite playable yet, so we're bumping that up to give her a fair shot.

We removed Qiyana's ability to jungle back when she was a dominant mid/jungle flex pick in Pro. Her standings in mid have gone down since then, so we're cautiously optimistic about reintroducing her to the jungle. Our empress also has a staggeringly high-tier-biased winrate (sort of like Amumu, but the inverse). A likely reason for this skew is that her E+Q auto-aim combo can't be dodged at all, invalidating many would-be outplays which feels really bad. We're revising its targeting mechanisms to empower opponents who are quick enough to dare challenge her.

Qiyana boasts a lot of things, and one of them is her early roaming potential. This has caused her to have an oppressive presence in Elite play for a while now, so we’re looking to take her down from her perch by tapping the brakes.

Qiyana’s power tends to rely on early roams. This has shaped her to be the Elite pick of choice, where players have been able to use her roaming prowess to their full advantage without running into the coordinated safety usually seen in higher-tier games. To bring her more opportunities for royal success, we’re giving her more baseline scaling and encouraging an earlier W max. You know, for crushing.

Qiyana is weak for all but the most skilled players. We're giving her some general power for when she isn't able to capitalize on clutch roams.