How to win lane as Lissandra against Qiyana · 53.39% win rate over 1,742 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even skill — neither of you has a real all-in and Qiyana's element empowerment only matters once she can trade with it. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays skill as her empowered Q trades are answered by your Q waveclear and safe positioning. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 is a coin-flip skill window where her dash all-in and your W disengage cancel out. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 remain skill: she threatens reset kills but your point-and-click W denies her the clean burst. |
| Level 6 | Lissandra | Level 6 favours Lissandra because Frozen Tomb hard-counters her dive and can self-peel or lock her mid-combo. |
| First item | Lissandra | At first item your gap-close stun chain lets you lock her before she empowers, so the item spike is yours. |
| Two+ items | Lissandra | With two-plus items your AoE ult swings teamfights far harder than her single-target reset assassinations. |
Levels 1-4 are skill: Qiyana has strong element-empowered trades but you have safe waveclear with Q and a point-and-click W to stop her dash windows, so trade back when her element is on cooldown and don't let her freerange the brush.
The full Lissandra vs Qiyana report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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