Taliyahs kit. What abilities I predict her to have when released. (Based on the short story teaser.)
Now before I begin, this is all just speculation and Riot has not released her kit yet nor do I pretend to know what her kit is. This is simply how I see her kit being based on what we know she's done in the teaser.
The first thing she done is warm the stones in her pockets for warmth, though I do not know exactly how this would translate into an ability. She also does this with larger stones to warm up a cave. Perhaps it will be a healing ability?
The second things she's done is crate a stone blockade to protect herself from the avalanche.
She desperately focused, pulling on the rough edges of the visible rock. A row of thick columns sprang from the ground. The stone blockade reached far over her head just as the crushing white avalanche slammed into it with a heavy whumpf.
This I think will translate to her being able to make a temporary wall in game, similar to Anivia's ice wall. However I would prefer something along the lines of a curved wall. One that was sloped on one side, allowing you to quickly run over it like a ramp. This would allow you to create a wall stopping enemy progression, but still allow you to go over it to reach the enemy. It's not the coolest thing, but it's more interesting than a simple wall.
The third thing she's done is use stone to lift someone into the air.
The crust of ice erupted in front of her, quickly followed by a towering ribbon of granite balancing a lone figure.
She does this a second time later in the story.
"Get away from him!" Taliyah pulled at the cobbled floor of the inn, the flat stones erupting, lifting the captain off his feet.
As the captain's body was knocked up, Yasuo was there to meet it, the cold blade cutting through the captain's chest in three quick strikes. The body fell to the floor and was still.
To me this says she will have a knock up, which for obvious reasons will give her a great deal of synergy with Yasuo.
In all likely hood the knock up will be a stone pillar erupting under a champion and sending them into the air.
The forth thing she does is use the earth for transportation at increased speeds, similar to how Toph travels on land quickly when by herself in the Avatar, series.
The rock beneath the inn burst in great, rounded arcs. Stone columns threaded themselves in and out of the ground like a wave.
We also see her actually doing this in the splash art that came with the teaser.
This I think will be a movement based ability, (obviously) that if it's her ult, will likely knock people aside as she charges forward. If not her ult, then it may simply be short to medium ranged dash.
Welp that's what I think anyway. What do you think she will have in her kit when she's released?
Also before anyone goes and comments on it, Yes I know that personality wise and also her situation or far more like Terra's than Toph. However how she uses her powers is more in line with Toph than with Terra. Taliyah is kinda a mix of the two, and people really shouldn't be saying she's one or the other. That's just what I think on that matter.
But anyway how do you feel her kit will turn out? What do you imagine it to be?
Personally I'm excited that we are getting a super powered human who isn't an aspect or mage!
