Preemptive Taliyah W suggestion

The Ecdysiast··1 votes·390 views

Since we've somehow gone completely backwards, from making champions too mobile to making them too weak to mobility, I suggest they change Taliyah's W slightly so she isn't completely crippled by anyone with a single dash.

Instead of making it an instant cast, as some might suggest, I suggest it become targeted. But the ability follows the target and still has the delay.

That way, a mobile champ won't completely delete her CC during the lane phase but has the option to use their mobility to prevent allies from being knocked up during a teamfight, by leaving.

Edit: The Champion Spotlight does a very amazing job of showing you two key weaknesses in Taliyah's kit:

  1. Despite not being a juggernaut, they showcase that to get in a good position she may often require flash.
  2. Like Sol, and many other mages who are weak to popular (freelo) picks, she lacks initiation. While she does set up her wall for a fight, she still cannot initiate the fight because of her hard CC's delay.

2 Comments

Xanit1 votes

I think targeted abilities and hard mobility such as dashes and gap closers are both cancerous design, and should be abolished. However, since Riot's old design philosophy will never die due to their greed over the installed playerbase abusing it for their cheap wins, I guess adding more targeted disables is the only option... Since the game will now just devolve into targeted abilities vs dashes. Sigh.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

It's kinda always been that way.

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