Please Help a Wanna-Be Taliyah Main

iSeaSalt·11/24/2017, 5:51:13 PM·7 votes·1,529 views

Hello there! A few weeks ago I went from a support main to mid main. First I tried playing utility mages because I really liked the concept of it. I played Karma Mid (I'm lvl 6 on her), and Soraka Mid (no, I did not feed at all). I did have a bit CS problems, but now I kind of got the hang of it. Otherwise, I did really well playing utility mages. Last week I checked into Taliyah and I instantly bought her. She seemed so hard to master, and that's exactly why I got her. Karma and Soraka are generally easy champions, but Taliyah is hard, and I liked it. And plus, she's considered a utility mage, which only benefits my playstyle even more. Anyway, I got her and I... LOVED HER! She's very hard, but after 10 games I got the hang of her, and now I'm considering to main her. Now I only have one major question:

After the season update, I've heard people complaining about the new runes on Taliyah. And when I think about it, I'm kind of complaining too. What do you think I should go? I kind of improvised and made my own rune page, it looks like this: Sorcery tree: Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch Domination: A rune that heals you when you damage an enemy (forgot the name), and a rune that gives you bonus out of combat movement speed when you kill enemies (forgot the name too) As you can see this rune page is about roaming, A LOT, which is something EVERY Taliyah player should do EVERY game. Scorch is good for trading, and manaflow band is good for, well, laning in general. Phase Rush is way worse than SRS, so I'm kind of considering Aerie instead, because then you can trade much better and have better poke more often. What do you think about my thoughts? Please give me guidance, I'm just a wanna-be Talyah Main :)

14 Comments

alexlirola11/25/2017, 1:42:36 AM2 votes

I use electrocute due to the damage that you obtain in early. I like to play aggresive in lane and i think that is the best way to play her currently. Arcane comet is the worst because you will not hit the comet when you do your w e combo. Gl, im glad to see a new taliyah main.

feeding time11/24/2017, 6:30:44 PM1 votes

Comet is just best on mages right now.

Taliyah has limited mobility, aside from her ult, and doesn't benefit from the others quite as much.

Summon Aery would have been viable on her, but it just recently got nerfed, so I don't think you're going to want to run that either.

TLDR: Comet

Te4 Kettle11/24/2017, 6:46:57 PM1 votes

In my experience I personally prefer the domination tree with electrocute. I take cheap shot for teir two, eyeball collection and then the movespeed one. Afterwards I actually prefer the percision tree, with that you can get the triumph and coup de gras rune, which are all great for executes and the old dangeruous game mastery. Do be warned both of the runes in the percision tree are getting nerfed slightly next patch, but I still think you might like this specific set. If you have any questions feel free to ask away. As a side note, in case you didn't know you can set your E AFTER,you W so that they don't expect the seismic shove and you can get the burst off imminently. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask ;3

EDIT: spelling and word choice

Noblewind11/24/2017, 6:47:35 PM1 votes

I like electrocute because through your main combo you're always going to hit 3 spells, and you can get the bonus true damage to movement impaired enemies through the other domination rune.

Secondary is a matter of whether you are facing an assassin counter or not. If you aren't, go Sorcery, if you are, get the stopwatch rune.

alekzu11/24/2017, 7:00:34 PM1 votes

Taliyah considered a utility mage?

CC is crow control and disables enemies from doing specific actions meanwhile utility = beneficial effect for allies like move speed, attack speed, extra ad and ap, cdr...pretty much stat buffs. And even shields are not considered utility. Shields along with heals are considered sustain. Where Tali has utility? I don't understand :/

Unless it's the same case where people call Morgana's Q and Karma's W stun.

Also sorry that I don't contribute to the discussion. ^^'

Risk of Fate11/24/2017, 6:19:28 PM1 votes

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sutora311/24/2017, 9:28:36 PM1 votes

play any DIVER mid (not assassin) with item 3147 item 3142 item 3814 item 3031 item 3087 item 3078 and you sahll be cleansed of becoming a true demonic creature or know as e-girl

TheGoomyGamer11/24/2017, 10:06:44 PM1 votes

I enjoy running phase rush, manaflow band, celerity and scorch in the sorcery tree, with precision secondary - presence of mind and coup de grace. Comet kinda sucks because your burst combo will almost always knock them out of the impact. Presence of mind allows you to use E and/or WE to clear waves really early on without crippling your mana. This and manaflow allows you to get fiendish codex before lost chapter for more CDR and offensive capabilities. If you enjoy roaming, I would suggest waterwalking as the domination tree isn't very good for taliyah compared to precision or inspiration (when Vs assassins, perfect timing and dematerializer)

Dirty Weeb11/25/2017, 12:02:15 AM1 votes

i believe electrocute might be best on taliyah, even though it might be hard to land.

sumerska11/24/2017, 9:19:28 PM1 votes

I honestly prefer summon aery since you can send him out every few seconds, though they did nerf him recently. I feel that comet is just too unreliable, especially since your w might throw them out of the comet radius, but it does scale better.