Blitzcrank vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Blitzcrank
based on 1,657 Blitzcrank vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Taliyah
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Advice to Win Against Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Blitzcrank vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some important Blitzcrank versus Taliyah matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taliyah. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when facing off against Taliyah, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Blitzcrank makes a good counter for Taliyah.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Blitzcrank into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Blitzcrank also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Taliyah matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Blitzcrank is a good counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Blitzcrank to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank often racks up a lot less CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Blitzcrank versus Taliyah build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank included at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Taliyah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Taliyah as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Blitzcrank vs Taliyah counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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