Should You Main Qiyana? Tier A
Yes. Qiyana is tier A for maining. 14 Challenger and 20 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 344,634 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Qiyana scores 9.77 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 9.77 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 14 Challenger · 20 Grandmaster · 172 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 344,634 games played worldwide · 3.74% pick rate · 0.98% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So you're going to be able to get her a lot of the time. She's only 5% pick/ban. 14 challenger mains, 20 grandmaster counts.
I know there's holy chicken cows in NA, Dave. There's a bunch of players actually that click on like I can't even name them all. Like I just know so many like and is very strong.
Has been for a long time now. Very fun as well. It is somewhat mechanically intensive.
So, I don't know if you can grind into long sessions with Qiyana. You better take breaks or you're going to find yourself losing LP. But if you were to learn an assassin type champion, this is one of your options.
Good in the jungle, good in the mid lane. I've seen it top lane, but not too great there. I would recommend Ko for sure.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.