Caitlyn vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Caitlyn
based on 3,998 Caitlyn vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Taliyah
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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!
Caitlyn vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Caitlyn vs. Taliyah matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..
Caitlyn usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Taliyah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when taking on Taliyah, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes an ok counter for Taliyah.
While Caitlyn does have a higher winrate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Caitlyn also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Taliyah.
Moreover, Caitlyn also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Taliyah matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Caitlyn against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Taliyah build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Taliyah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Taliyah as Caitlyn, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Caitlyn vs Taliyah battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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