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Taliyah Build

Mid Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 15,298 gamesUpdated

49.2%win rate0.6%pick0.3%ban

Who counters Taliyah

Every Mid matchup for Taliyah, ranked →

How to build Taliyah

Crimson Lucidity→Blackfire Torch→Rylai's Crystal Scepter→Zhonya's Hourglass

Crimson Lucidity → Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Zhonya's Hourglass

53.5% win rate 14% of games 1,369 games
RunesSorceryDeathfire TouchManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionLegend: HastePresence of Mind22% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport64%
Skills
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Threaded Volley
14578
Seismic Shove
314151718
Unraveled Earth
29101213
Weaver's Wall
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Taliyah build →
49.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.4% over 28,995 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.2% over 15,298 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.5%at Emerald+
0.6%pick rate
0.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.3%under 22 min
49.8%over 32 min

Taliyah Mid gets better as the elo rises. 49.2% across Silver and above, and 51.5% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Taliyah champion portraitM TaliyahvsTalon champion portraitM Talon
10 / 1 / 11

Build

Crimson Lucidity|Blackfire Torch→Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEREEW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Taliyah champion portraitM TaliyahvsAhri champion portraitM Ahri
7 / 6 / 18

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Blackfire Torch→Cosmic Drive→Banshee's Veil

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Taliyah champion portraitM TaliyahvsAurelion Sol champion portraitM Aurelion Sol
12 / 2 / 12

Build

Crimson Lucidity|Archangel's Staff→Liandry's Torment

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 47.0% win rate · 22% of games · 3,007 games
SorceryDeathfire TouchManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionLegend: HastePresence of Mind
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.9% win rate · 16% of games · 2,285 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionLegend: HastePresence of Mind
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport64%47.9%10,082 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost15%51.4%2,387 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Crimson Lucidity48%Spellslinger's Shoes36%Chainlaced Crushers10%
Crimson Lucidity most often · 49.0% win rate

Taliyah build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Blackfire Torch2nd
  3. Rylai's Crystal Scepter3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path53.0% win rate353 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Taliyah →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 15,410 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 115,410 games

Boots

Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
47% · 49.2% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
36% · 52.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
10% · 47.8% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
3% · 52.1% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
2% · 52.3% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 20.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blackfire Torch›Rylai's Crystal Scepter+Crimson Lucidity3% of games · 43.8% win rate · 475 games
  2. Blackfire Torch+Crimson Lucidity3% of games · 34.7% win rate · 470 games
  3. Blackfire Torch+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 39.7% win rate · 343 games
  4. Rylai's Crystal Scepter›Blackfire Torch+Crimson Lucidity2% of games · 46.1% win rate · 306 games
  5. Blackfire Torch›Rylai's Crystal Scepter+Spellslinger's Shoes1% of games · 44.5% win rate · 229 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Taliyah against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Taliyah's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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