Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Qiyana versus Heimerdinger counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Qiyana often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes a poor counter for Heimerdinger.
While Qiyana does have a lower winrate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Qiyana into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Qiyana has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Qiyana is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Qiyana against Heimerdinger.
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Qiyana versus Heimerdinger build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Qiyana bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Heimerdinger than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Heimerdinger 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 builds players used for Qiyana vs Heimerdinger fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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