Qiyana

Being last in line has never stopped Qiyana from acting like she already sits on the throne.

Ixaocan, the jungle city at the heart of Ixtal — a jungle nation that keeps itself hidden from the rest of Runeterra while mastering elemental magic — does not hand its throne to just anyone. Reaching the Yun Tal’s high seat means outlasting every relative who stands closer in line, and Qiyana was born several steps back from that line herself. That has done nothing to dampen her ambition. She treats every obstacle between herself and power as something to be removed rather than negotiated with, and her command of elemental magic gives her the means to do exactly that.

Qiyana plays as an assassin in the mid lane, drawing on mana to fuel a kit that lives and dies by how well she reads the terrain around her. It shows in how she carries herself as much as how she fights. Terrashape lets her dash into position while enchanting her weapon with whichever element she claims from nearby ground, amplifying every attack and ability that follows while the enchantment holds. Elemental Wrath changes its bonus effect to match that element as she swings her weapon, and Audacity dashes her onto an enemy to damage them directly, closing gaps that would otherwise let a target escape. Supreme Display of Talent, her ultimate, sends out a shockwave that detonates any elements she has already placed, stunning and damaging everyone caught nearby. Royal Privilege, her passive, rewards the first hit against any target with bonus damage — a small mechanical echo of a girl who believes she is entitled to more than her birth order allows. She sees herself as Ixaocan’s greatest elementalist, and by her own reasoning, that alone should be worth an empire, not just a city. Whether Ixtal agrees is a separate question entirely.