If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Qiyana against Malphite counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malphite. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in deaths.
Qiyana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when playing against Malphite, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes a poor counter for Malphite.
While Qiyana does have a much lower win rate compared to Malphite, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Qiyana into Malphiteas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Qiyana also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Qiyana is a terribly counter for Malphite. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Qiyana against Malphite.
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Qiyana versus Malphite build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Qiyana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Malphite than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when playing against Malphite with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Malphite as Qiyana, you should equip 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 runes players picked for Qiyana vs Malphite counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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