PSA: Buy Lich Bane as Your First Item on Taliyah

has no targeted attacks except for her auto-attacks. Her auto-attacks give you 100% reliable damage at range. She has short cooldowns and can rotate spells easily. She can auto-attack DURING ALL OF HER SPELLS.

gives you a large amount of AP that scales with all of your abilities. It gives you movement speed to help with kiting, chasing, dodging, and escaping. It gives you cooldown reduction to get off more spells. It gives you enough mana to sustain your spells. It massively increases your auto-attack damage and combo-damage with an AP scaling Spellblade.

Full combo: R into fight > AA to get off of R wall > E > AA > Q > AA during Q > W into E field > AA while enemy is in mid-air.

People are currently building with , which is terrible. gives no noticeable damage spike in your combo. It takes at least 5 minutes after buying it to give as much AP as . Its passive sucks for Taliyah, who can use the extra movement speed much more than the miniscule healing. does provide a lot of mana and health, but is surprisingly not that mana-hungry, and should be dodging damage anyway, not tanking it.