Taliyah Changes Were As Bad As Anticipated

The champ can't roam anymore, like objectively. Her waveclear is so garbage now, and that was the sole reason to play her. She's worse in lane now too, because you can't AoE harass with Q. If you land a W + E combo, any minions caught in it will entirely block your Q too. This is among other nerfs too, like E damage (which feels awful) and wall duration.

I guess I'm just bitter, but I'm also racking my mind as to why this change even needed to occur in the first place at such a devastating level. I would legitimately compare this to the original Zoe nerfs, where her Q was rendered useless as waveclear, because that's essentially what they did to Taliyah. Champs have been strong in pro-play before, but it's really only mid champions that receive the real nerfs. (see: ) Other strong champions in pro-play get damage scalings reduced, or stats lowered, while (for a while) was literally the lowest winrate in the game and now 's identity has essentially been erased as a roaming mage. She just feels watered-down and not unique or particularly interesting anymore.

I'm just praying that, like Zoe, Taliyah will get some backpedalling and compensation elsewhere, like making her W + E combo stronger or giving her lower mana costs.