Taliyah Wall Balancing

Boeg3··2 votes·281 views

Watching competitive play, Taliyah's R seems to create a lot of situations with no counterplay when shes ahead in the game. An example of such a situation is when she "walls off" a Tower, placing her R, wall, diagonally behind an enemy Tower, cutting of the enemy team and making them unable to defend the Tower, making the objective almost free.

Her R should have a big impact, its an ultimate, but i do feel that it lacks counterplay in situations where I personally feel like there should be some counterplay opportunity. In my opinion the above situation with walling off a Tower shouldnt necessarily have counterplay against two enemies, but against five her R shouldnt render them all useless in that situation.

My proposed fix: Make sections of Taliyah's R, wall, be destroyable after X hits. Like a vision Ward. X being for example 4-6 hits if you want counterplay against 2-3 opponents, or X being for example 10-12 hits if you want counterplay for 4-5 opponents. Her wall is already visually divided into sections.

This change would make it so, that if she R to wall off a turret, with 5 enemies present, they can autoattack a section of the wall down in a couple of seconds, not making them unable to do a thing for the entire duration. The X amount of hits can also be changed accordingly if her R becomes too weak or too strong.

the drawback: the only drawback as i see it, is that its easyer said than done. This change would most likely require an entire re-coding of her R-ability by the developers.

Thoughts?

3 Comments

The Leo Cat1 votes

The counter play is how badly Taliah can fuck over her team mates. I've never been in a game where I could trust a Taliah's Ult. Every time they ult, they always single out one of or two of our team mates in a fight... in a fight that we should have win... and cause a throw.

Boeg31 votes

Cant balance around player skill. In competitive play it mostly have no counterplay.

The Leo Cat2 votes

You should reaaaaally look at league of failure. Taliah screw ups happens at all ELOs.

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