Riot seriously needs to do something about taliyah

Unlucky47··3 votes·1,071 views

She needs longer cooldowns. She gets to run through her entire combo every 5 seconds AND use her q in the combos and in between. There is never a downside for someone to go in on her because she always has a massive damage ability available. And then on top of that you give her one of the best roaming ultimates in the game.

Riot likes to cite this thing they call the "power budget". Somehow, high burst on low cooldowns with mobility, 3 forms of cc, and the ability to traverse half the map while blocking off an area didn't exceed the power budget. While you go to increase her cooldowns, you should also consider making her do less damage early game because currently she can lane bully almost anyone and then scale ridiculously hard into mid and late game.

Please do something to make her harder to play because you can't keep pushing the balanced by difficulty narrative with taliyah.

And while we're at it is there anyway to report smurf accounts? Any at all?

18 Comments

MissingKayo4 votes

For a second, I thought this was requesting buffs.

Should've known better than to expect smart posts on Gameplay. She is near trash-tier and you want even more nerfs?

Her damage is horrible and she only has 1 meaningfully hard CC on W that is extremely easy to avoid (knockback with ult is unreliable), and 1 soft CC (E slow).

Shitposting is shitposting.

Unlucky471 votes

I'm guessing you haven't fought a taliyah recently or see one that has played more than 5 games on her. She's legitametly overpowered and wins a majority of any solo or teamfighting confrontation because of what her abilities allow.

MissingKayo2 votes

Hint, you're bad at the game.

ProtestantCaesar4 votes

She's always seemed like a fair champion to me. If you dodge her knock-up, her mine field does far less damage and you can win basically every trade.

Unlucky471 votes

At 3 items agaisnt a vi with merc treads and hexdrinker, just throwing out her minefield decimates your health. That's without even activating the secondary effect which is really easy to do because of how much it slows you and when you get rylais you practically can't miss it.

MissingKayo2 votes

Taliyah's damage is complete trash.

Learn to play.

Unlucky471 votes

You don't have anything to back that up because her combo is ridiculous amounts of damage.

Im saving up for her and I'll play her for 2 weeks and come back and talk about how bullshit she is

MinaZer03 votes

Taliyah is a champion?

Forgot she existed.

Unlucky471 votes

I've lost lane and seen every teammate lose lane against her and the only people that know she's strong are the people that play her and they wouldn't dare say anything about nerfing a champion that gets them free elo.

MinaZer01 votes

Her Q is on a very low CD later in the game and she usually builds item 3116 which probably makes her feel unfair.

Tormentula1 votes

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I've lost lane

fun fact: losing lane to anything is a possibility, in case you didn't know that. In fact some champions are designed to always win lane but they have flaws when it comes to team fighting and seiging where they eventually fall off and become useless. Taliyah isn't even one of these.

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and the only people that know she's strong are the people that play her and they wouldn't dare say anything about nerfing a champion that gets them free elo.

Those taliyahs that you see win... are the only ones in existence. Anybody who still plays this champion are dedicated mains or one tricks, which theorically could play urgot jungle out of bronze to platinum if they were really good at it. Granted she's a fun champion but when it comes to the taliyah playerbase, she's not meta compared to any other mage.

Hell her low playrate + poor winrate shows even mains don't always succeed with this champion.

Unlucky471 votes

I lose lane to her EVERY TIME because she has way too much lane presence. Taliyah has immense lane pressure and roaming and team fighting and you can ask anyone that has actually put time into the champion and they'll probably say they win a good amount with her. She can't be engaged on, can't be caught out, and can't be outdueled because she punishes anyone that trys to avoid her shit by making it so they'll take extra damage from trying to play against her.

MissingKayo1 votes

Or because you're bad and don't know how to play against her.

If you actually think she can't be engaged on/caught out/outdueled, you're worse than Plastic.

At least some Bronze players acknowledge they're bad instead of just whining their opponents are OP.

Tormentula1 votes

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you can ask anyone that has actually put time into the champion and they'll probably say they win a good amount with her.

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=blasterejro

Idk, literally the best taliyah in NA only has a 40% winrate this week, and a 54% total winrate this season.

That translates to they win 5 games out of 10, which isn't "win most" more like "win half" and for best taliyah NA that doesn't sound very impressive.

MissingKayo2 votes

QQ threads right after someone loses a game to a champion are always the funniest.

Tormentula1 votes

Taliyah has a 46% winrate..

Just because you don't know how to follow, roam, lane, or deal with not even meta champions doesn't mean they need a nerf.

Unlucky471 votes

You can't follow someone that walks into river for 2 seconds and then is bot lane. The only champions that can actually fight a half decent taliyah are ones that out range her

Tormentula1 votes

Talon TwistedFate Shen Pantheon Ryze Nocturne Leblanc Kassadin Fizz Ekko Ahri Akali item 3117 summoner 12

Yes you can, and saying you can't is bronze mentality. Her transportation speed isn't even fast, the ult can be interrupted with an auto if you follow her into the river, and there's a cast time to react and stop her.

If you can't do any of that as a mid laner than why are you playing mid lane instead of top if you can't handle roaming.

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