Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Ahri against Qiyana matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Qiyana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Qiyana..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Qiyana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when playing against Qiyana, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter to Qiyana.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Qiyana.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Qiyana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Qiyana matchups, Qiyana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Qiyana. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Qiyana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Qiyana. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ahri versus Qiyana build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Qiyana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Qiyana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Qiyana as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ahri vs Qiyana counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Qiyana as Ahri are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.