Taliyah Feeling a Little Underpowered?

Leafvyle··2 votes·520 views

Hey Rito! I've never posted on the boards before because I never felt like I needed to, but after testing with Taliyah and trying to understand her kit, it seems to me that some of her abilities are not up to par and does not do her justice as a control mage. (Btw I love her overall character so much!) I don't know if you guys would read this, but if you guys do, can you take into consideration by changing up some of her abilities?

For all the people that don't like reading paragraphs. tl;dr basically she needs her passive to be changed urgently and that maybe all of her abilities could work with "Worked Ground"! I say give it a read and maybe who knows you guys might have some ideas of your own to share! :)

My idea starts here: I want to start off with her Passive because as cool as it is to surf on a rock all around the map, I can't seem to utilize it as much because I have to be near a wall and when I'm fighting or trying to reposition myself by dodging abilities and even trying to run away because if I get damaged once it goes away. I could try to chase the enemy, but the kiting also takes it away and it sucks. I still really like the passive so I was wondering if you guys could implement her passive into her worked ground, like say if she is standing on "worked ground" instead of making her animation walk a little faster, she could instead tear the boulder out of the ground to ride on within the worked ground and that even if she is damaged she wouldn't stop riding it. The movement speed doesn't have to gradually increase and it could just be a fair amount of movement speed so it doesn't make her broken. Maybe you guys could give her a new passive that states "Everytime Taliyah uses an ability, she then tears a chunk of the ground to cast her abilities while leaving worked ground" (I don't know how to write that to make it sound epic lol) or something that works with all of her abilities if she were to be standing on worked ground. Since her Q already interacts with her worked ground and I believe it would be pretty cool if all of her ability did so too in different ways of course. Next I think her Q is amazing as it is, but since it could only shoot one stone if she is standing on worked ground, maybe she could also get like a lower CD on it to cast again. It doesn't have to be super quick, but just enough so that it doesn't take forever for us to trade against our opponent or you guys could make it pierce through minions (with a little bit of extra damage) so we can trade properly with just one stone. Then to her W and it is freaking awesome as it looks like in Avatar the Last Airbender, so maybe her W could be a bit bigger or maybe her cast range because it's really hard to pull it off with it having a delay and whatnot. If she were to be standing on worked ground, I guess you could make it snare them instead of knocking them up or apply that new debuff "Grounded" like Cass! For her E, I was really against it at first since I didn't like how she just makes a cone of stones and I believed it could have been something more flashy, but after testing it I started to like it more and more. I like it as it is honestly lol and for her worked ground maybe her E could be reactivated to explode quickly dealing half the damage or something (I still don't get why it explodes though lol) that wait time for it to explode is pretty long. Finally her ult and I really don't know where to go with this one because I want it to have damage so we can change the tide of fights and team fights, but it might be too good and unhealthy. I'll leave that to you guys because maybe her ult does or does not need to work with worked ground. So yeah Rito that's my opinion hope you guys enjoy the read because I spent a good hour or two just coming up with tons of ideas! I don't know if you will implement it at all, but hopefully it interests you guys!

3 Comments

rootScythe2 votes

Riot already has posts about how theyre thinking of "adapting" her Q and worked ground to new things. But Im glad you're posting your opinions to the forums. Maybe they can use the ideas for a new champ design down the road.

Embertine1 votes

Riot is not going to give her a kit overhaul until she's been put on the update list some years form now.

However they are currently looking into buffing her right now, and have already done a minor buff to her Q.

Leafvyle1 votes

Ah ok I just read it too, so lower mana cost and lower duration for worked ground! That's good, so step by step not to overwork the champion. Thanks Wyvere I'm trying to be more involved you could say and yeah that would be neat if they would consider any of these ideas into future champions! I see sorry Embertine first post and I went crazy with it haha and hopefully they would look at any of these ideas just for maybe future references to Taliyah's kit.

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