Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Qiyana versus Blitzcrank matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Qiyana often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 42.7% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes a bad counter to Blitzcrank.
While Qiyana does have a much lower win rate compared to Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Qiyana into Blitzcrankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Qiyana is a terribly counter to Blitzcrank. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average racks up much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Qiyana versus Blitzcrank build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Qiyana included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Blitzcrank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average winrate of 42.7% when playing against Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Blitzcrank as Qiyana, Qiyana players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Qiyana vs Blitzcrank counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.7% winrate overall.
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