Bruiser Taliyah

I was experimenting with again today. I know people are saying she's weak, and maybe she is, but I've been playing her quite often because I seriously find her so fun to play.

Anyway, I've created a weird ass build that seems to work wonders for me.

The build is: and the sixth item is a situational item, like one of these > .

Yes, I don't buy boots. + + + 's Passive gives me all the movement speed I want.

The build works pretty damn well. I wanted some survivability, crowd control, and damage all at the same time, so with its built-in slow and health was the obvious first item. My next biggest problem with Taliyah is that her full combo is kinda hard to land, so her damage ends up being unreliable. The only damage I can really hit reliably is my auto-attack, so that's where comes in. I also had issues with how squishy Taliyah is in the late game, so I wanted at least two pure tank items on her without sacrificing too much of her damage. I knew I had to sacrifice my boots to do that, so I was looking for items with movespeed and damage built in, which is where and came in. The is honestly just there to balance out my resistances and further increase my tankiness, and the last item really depends on what's happening in the game at that point.

I've won 9/10 normal games with this build in my other account. I'm off to play it in ranked, so I'll let you know how it goes.

EDIT: I won 7/10 ranked games I played this in, though you wouldn't believe the shitstorm everyone was typing in chat. I often had to mute at least two of my teammates as soon as I bought , and almost all of my teammates as soon as I bought and they see that I don't have boots.