Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some influential Qiyana versus Aatrox counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, showing that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Qiyana often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Aatrox. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when playing against Aatrox, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes a bad counter to Aatrox.
While Qiyana does have a lower winrate compared to Aatrox, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Qiyana into Aatroxas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Qiyana has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Qiyana is a trash counter to Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Aatrox.
If you would like to truly master Qiyana in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Qiyana versus Aatrox build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Qiyana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Aatrox than with many other common item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Aatrox as Qiyana, Qiyana players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Qiyana vs Aatrox fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Aatrox as Qiyana are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.