@Riot - Taliyah already seems like a favorite. A few questions.

Blainezy·5/2/2016, 6:26:31 PM·9 votes·2,162 views

Soooo, I'm a mid main and I love mages in every game. However, this gem is already shaping up to seem awesome. Just a couple questions, that I think you can answer because they aren't too in depth.

I love Avatar: The Last Airbender. Toph is one of my favorite characters and Taliyah seems to semi resemble her in terms of the short hair and her crest on her head (which may be shuriman or something of the sort, but also resembles some symbols of earth benders)... So I was just wondering, is Taliyah in any way, based off of Toph or at least inspired by her?
Is this the full fledged Mage Meddler recently spoke of being released this year, or is there still an even better Mage to come?
I hope she has an awesome release skin. Maybe Molten Taliyah? Lava rocks please!

Anyway, I'm really loving her so far! I can't wait for tomorrow to see what else she offers!

19 Comments

Rico Nasty5/2/2016, 9:31:33 PM4 votes

She looks to be basically a PoC version of Toph, which is amazing cause PoC girls are wonderful and beautiful. That aside, her kit and name are cool as shit too, I think I'll be playing her quite a bit..

GreenLore5/2/2016, 6:42:05 PM3 votes

About your first point: I think that the way she moved the earth was partially inspired by Toph(you know basically riding on an earth wave and her general movements),but I doubt that there are more connections. I mean read the "bird&the branch"-story and she seems to be the complete opposite of toph(wouldn't surprise me if this was intentional to avoid comparisons to toph)

Igotlazy5/2/2016, 8:26:20 PM2 votes

I would say her method of controlling rocks seems heavily based off of Earth-bending in the show. Hard and slow motions that carry a lot of weight to them.

Tesla Effect5/2/2016, 8:38:56 PM2 votes

And she will probably be released in May...just like Ekko, one of my favourite champs.

warpenguin5555/2/2016, 8:03:00 PM2 votes

i thought the full fledged mage was AurelionSol but maybe not...

Rito Staff5/2/2016, 7:55:16 PM2 votes

Sandbender Talyiah.

Afterall she's from Shurima, Azir might teach her a thing or two

Weathered5/2/2016, 7:16:15 PM1 votes

I'm going to be slightly dissapointed if it turns out she's a utility support instead of a lane mage. Sol just came out and he's a mid mage. Nothing against supports, but as a jungle/mid mid lanes can be a lot more flexible.