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The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Syndra vs. Qiyana counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Qiyana..
Syndra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Qiyana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Qiyana, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes an ok counter to Qiyana.
While Syndra does have a higher win rate than Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Syndra into Qiyanaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Qiyana matchups, Syndra is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Syndra is a decent counter for Qiyana. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Qiyana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Qiyana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Qiyana. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Syndra versus Qiyana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Qiyana than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Qiyana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Qiyana as Syndra, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Syndra vs Qiyana face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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