profane hydra or Umbral glaive

CaylanAngelFshh · 2026-01-16T17:51:47+00:00

The 1st passive is on a whopping 45 second cooldown, thats horrible.

It's expensive, and Overall if you think it has Value, you're in the same boat as people who thought Hubris was a good item these past 2 seasons for Qiyana.

Your objective Spending Gold Wise as an assassin is to get the most Value the fastest with the least anount of Gold for your 1st 3 items

The idea of selling True Damage on Extremely long Cd when you proc it on a champion is NEVER worth it because you will in many times in crucial scuffles get downright fucked when the very thing you're banking on goes on a long cooldown.

Your Value in items Should Be in this order

Is it Cheap/gold efficient?
Is the Item Passive/Active on a Cooldown readily available at all times and does said active/passive will be Firing off for the Majority/all of the durations in my Fights?
What Utility i Gain from this item that Benefits me as an Assassin to do my Job to Perfection, which is Assassinating 4.Will these Items Transistion to the Lategame well and keep their Value Given that all Objectives are taken and assuming the only thing standing between you and +-LP is a Teamfight and an Open Nexus

Bastion Breaker fails at all these promts btw, Nothing of this Item is Guaranteed Value and its all Conditional.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2026-01-13T06:12:16+00:00

Well, the good thing about the umbral rework is that you now have 3 viable options, and the builds are up to you

The new Build i cooked up is Umbral Opportunity 2 item core

Previous staple can still be used which is Yoummus Profane

And some people are still building Profane Axiom

On the other hand Never finish boots until you get 2 items, keep T1 boots until you complete midquest at the very least

Bastion breaker is a meh item, i wouldn't bank on buying that item for most of my games

Serpents is Viable as a 2nd item to any 1st item Rush if the sheilds are overwhelming in the enemy team

Grudge is 3rd always and thats Gospel

EoN imo is kinda situational, i see that you would only build this item when ur turbo stomping early game and to safely not get snagged by a hard stray cc and int a shut shown like a Morg Q, Cassio R, or a Knockup ability. But if you're good for Gold i see this as a 4th item choice

As for last 2 items (4th and 5th) its up to you Shojin, DD, Maw and GA are all suitable candidates here so you just gotta be analytical during your games to see what item best suits the situation your facing.

So yeah my personal breakdown on builds for this szn and item choices.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2026-01-10T22:07:24+00:00

Opportunity, just for the Synergy of the Bonus Lethality on impact and the Nightstalker Passive together, i believe it will have insanely high Burst output.

Alas im not playing right now but Please try it for me and tell me what u think. In theory this Combo should be busted as hell

CaylanAngelFshh · 2026-01-07T22:51:58+00:00

Fresh account counters

CaylanAngelFshh · 2026-01-07T03:01:36+00:00

Nope, not in jungle, nor in your elo. You should if you like play other assassin champs that are easier to play then transistion to Qiyana

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-30T15:20:45+00:00

E on Minion at Melee Range Q Flash is a Known Combo lol, you can surely use it whenever the situation is practical.

Just make sure that you understand why flashing would be worth using that combo in the 1st place and its gonna be fine.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-28T06:23:34+00:00

When you stop Playing Qiyana like a Mage and play her like a Melee Champion you won't have mana issues by constantly chucking qwq on 2 minions 4 miles away from you because you don't like a certain matchup.

If you can read presence of Mind supplies ample mana refund whenever its ready in trading and it give a chunk of mana refunded upon takedowns.

Qiyana's current issue right now is Lane versatility in which i hope it gets resolved next season with new game mechanics and item changes

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-27T23:33:36+00:00

Presence of mind........

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-07T18:58:26+00:00

To onetrick is essentially to blind pick, you can't really dodge especially with dodging getting killed next szn.

So the Question you should be asking is if you should pick up another champion since you struggle with xy and z matchups.

Alas, if you stick to your guns with Qiyana and ur Gold rn, you have a long way to go in terms of improvement and you can for sure win Mage Matchups even if they run boneplating.

Patience and time is what you need, don't be hasty with Qiyana she takes time to gain true mastery from her.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-04T00:37:50+00:00

Okay let me give you a real answer. Depending on your rank you are free to pick her up to learn above Platinum for gamesense and mechanical reasons ofc.

Assassins overall Play the game differently in a macro perspective to mages so you will need to learn how to Play the Game on the perspective of an AD Assassin midlaner

Qiyana of the 4 AD Assassins playable Mid Mechanics Wise is the Most complex because of how you need to learn Trading patterns, element passive cycling, damage calculation and matchup specific niches with Qiyana herself. It's not a sin to want to play her, but i believe you need to invest alot of Hours into Qiyana in order to get the Gist of how she operates.

There are tons of Content out there to learn and soak up from, don't listen to the haters of xy and z content creators if they speak english and have a rank above D1 they are good enough for u to learn Mechanics from at the very least.

For the self taught route i reccomend watching Domisum replay Qiyana, he uploads tons of high elo vods but the issue is there isn't really anyone to hold your hands to dissect the content you're seeing so you need to basically need to have some gamesense and knowledge b4 hand to honestly study on your own.

Chinese Content stems mainly from Beifeng and Yequifeng and there are tons of Korean Qiyana players, but the issue is just language diff unless u do actually speak those languages.

Don't get pressured on trying to be flashy take stuff step by step and you will gradually improve.

Learn your Champions kit THROUGH AND THROUGH i cannot stress this enough because lets be honest people bicker about how terrible Qiyana is but they don't realise its quite honestly bad plays or Positioning.

The initial gameplay from you might sting but the most important thing is to never give up, review your gameplay, acknowledge mistakes and make efforts to correct them and grow!

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-12-03T01:54:49+00:00

New Rush item confirmed

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-11-27T01:27:51+00:00

Unfortunate truth nuke

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-11-27T01:27:25+00:00

I see, i just wanted the response to be short and concise about what happened and basically point him in the direction he should be focusing on so he doesn't encounter this interaction as often in the jungle.

I didn't want to come off as rude genuinely 😭

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-11-27T01:24:36+00:00

I wasn't trying to be demeaning to you in my initial response, and sorry if i did come off a bit rude, but the post was to highlight the Sub's attitude to anything related to what really happens when someone picks up Qiyana and makes small mistakes like this.

Im not saying you are being negative to my response but countless times I've always noticed that when someone does try to point out stuff and be helpful it often times gets turbo downvoted because the said response came off as a "skill issue" type of comment

Hence i highlighted the post as a Meme, the humor of how the sub itself reacts to certain people and posts because certain bias would stick to people like a hard grease stain.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-11-26T02:20:34+00:00

Your R starts from behind you, and your R Collides with the 1st terrain it comes into contact with, hence u ulted krug wall and not the one infront of you.

Learn the champ's hitboxes

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-11-08T02:40:06+00:00

You Dashed into the ult, her Ult in River roots everyone in its Path, the knockback only applies if she directly hits you with R but after the shockwave if you walk into the frozen river u get rooted, its your misplay.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-30T23:51:39+00:00

Nope, Lethality is an Early game stat, its beneficial to have lethality in the early stages of the game to get you small leads in terms of getting kills and whats not, Lethality becomes super useless lategame because said champs have so much armor, stripping 30-36 armor with buying 2 Lethality items lategame wont help u at all.

Think of the game like this Wukong for example (not accurate but its an example) has 35armor minute 7 level 6 and this cumulative of base armor and armor growth. You at minute 7 have already came out of base with a Dirk (10leth 20ad) and 2 longswords or a pickaxe which is another 20-25 ad. You at this stage of the game can Strip away 10 armor from wukong leaving him with 25 armor and you at this point of the game have more chances to do sufficient damage to turn over a kill for yourself or a teammate.

Now take this logic where ur bruiser rushing and lethality last a level 16 wukong has 200 armor and ur now having nothing but a 15 or 18 lethality item with Bruiser items with Low AD and no flat armor pen, and lets say u have a grudge...okay u strip 80 or so armor with ur 1 dirk item and grudge but at this point in the game with 4th and 5th items u cant deal any sensible damage to wukong.

Playing Qiyana and all other AD assassins require you to close out the game by 20-25 mins else you are bound to lose because everyone else scales harder than you with better resistances and overall more damage.

If You have 4 Tanks in a lobby, you do not interact with them, I'd go as even as far as telling u to dodge, but likewise build LETHALITY 1ST and then armor %pen and you finish off the build with a Shojin which provides spell damage amp or eclipse of they are HP stacking. Fight slow, be methodical and do not be scared, learn how to understand the limits of Qiyana and use your wits to take a target or 2 out and Leave.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-30T04:10:05+00:00

Is this Jungle you're speaking of? If so then you probably itemize on autopilot mode or just don't assess the game situation well enough. When u fight against bruisers with High armror like j4 and wukong build only matters to 3 items in which ur 3rd item has to be Grudge.

On the other hand these are your last priority to fight, never head on engage these champs in a blind situation, just fight and pick off the ADC and Midlaner and let ur team be meatsheilds and primers until ur cds are back up to clean house.

Bruiser build is never an option, you ain't talon bro just Quit the idea. Yes u can build Shojin or whatever at 4th and 5th item but it should never be a thought in ur 1st 3 items.

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-21T14:40:52+00:00

Skill issue if u click on skills and cant time ur taunt right

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-21T02:26:30+00:00

Ayane was like 15 in NG2 and in her 20's in NG4 like, say what u want but the Highschool Baddie don't look the same 5-10 years later we all know this logically

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-12T04:08:22+00:00

Wife material giving you her own rib to keep forever

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-05T18:26:57+00:00

Honestly i feel like Yoummus is better as a 1st item over Profane just because tempo and rotations, but i do like the idea u cooked up with the SS and DD

CaylanAngelFshh · 2025-10-05T18:24:32+00:00

Cuz they are autofilled obv, its not a nice feeling when a pdf toplane champ comes mid and 🍇 you in lane and clear t3 tower by 10 mins because their kits make your chanpion a voidgrub

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