RIOT, what is Taliyah

I really have been wracking my brain over this champ,I have been testing her out on pbe for a bit now and just flat out can't understand how she is supposed to work.

First off she is a Mage/support control mage, designed to take control of battles, but her power IS NOT RELIABLE. Her kit has 0 reactionary power as her E and w have a cast time that many champs can flat out walk away from.

Her passive is one of the coolest useless abilities ever, it makes her the roaming mage she is, but she is supposed to be a mid laner? where there is 0 walls? meaning her passive has 0 lane presence, and her abilities cock block her passive too. when you use an ability you lose your passive for 5 seconds, which goes against her "Taliyah can steal an enemy blue buff after a fight, then Weaver's Wall to double-time it all the way to the enemy team's Brambleback for the double-buff."because you will be screwed for the 5 sec after you clear the camp. Limiting her own power.

Her Q, the 5 rocks shot is great, and a very nice ability, but her worked ground triggers, making her q in the area VERY pitiful, I understand the idea is to make it seem that the ground doesn't have as many rocks in it, and can only produce 1... but the effect you get from it limits her ability to do things, having unreliable damage, as you have to micromanage wher your worked ground IS NOT. Her worked ground passive MS is great as well, and that is why i feel it is a problem, her worked ground has more lane presence than her passive and 2 MS boosts seem conflicting.

Her W is very difficult to use, and with the whole vector debacle, idk what to think, but you can eventually learn how to use it effectively. But the thing is her W is VERY DELAYED, and can be EASILY dodged because the radius is so small. Another small gripe is you cannot do W > E fast, which would make her W combo a bit easier to set up honestly... but i digress.

Her E is just weird... it makes a set of rocks that do damage, and if any champ uses mobility, they TAKE DAMAGE.... only damage.... so in other words her combo is lay e out and knock them into the rocks... AT YOU.... which can be a hit or miss effect. Also it can only proc 4 damage tics with the mobilty over the tiles... which seems decent, but the damage seems really low... On top of that, the fact the reactivation damage is so very long that it has no usefulness as a CC. It has SCALING slow CC, which the more I play the champ, the more I feel they threw it in there to see if they can slap it on later to gut tank ekko into the ground.

And her ult is very nice, but you really have no use for it to NOT ride it, the wall is so thin that a flash or plenty of mobility just goes over it... and on top of that any damage knocks her off of it...

In all she is a CONTROL MAGE that is SUPPOSED to help stop mobile champs, but she SUCKS against anyone with mobility because her E doesn't stop them, it hurts them, and most of the time they just wait out the rocks and then go in, because your CD is so long between your W and E. She has VERY poor on demand strength, she rockblocks her own passive power, and her roaming and lane mobility clash.... roaming your worked ground is useless because you can't do it unless previously there. Her passive has 0 lane power.

TLDR:

P: Rockblocks itself with spells denying passive, useless in lane

Q: Worked ground trumps passive in lane, and worked Q hinders her damage output

W: can't be triggered quickly, is very delayed and kinda small honestly, has cast time

E: Meant to Hinder mobility, but doesn't do enough to actually cause a dent to them... and the damage cannot be reactivated for sooner damage. has cast time.

R: Is honestly fine, just feel with every champ having 5 passives up until now, seems weird when a spell has 0 damage, and only utility, seems just weird. Making her have a powerspike soley on items it seems.

Her kit is control... but can't do squat to control mobile champs...

I say this because I LOVE her as a champ, I have wanted an earth champ for a long time now that actually has more than 1 earth ability "COUGH" ... And want to see her succeed, but her kit seems so difficult to utilize while other champs have better reactionary power. Please discuss..