Rek'Sai vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Rek'Sai
based on 240 Rek'Sai vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Taliyah
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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!
Rek'Sai vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Rek'Sai vs. Taliyah matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Rek'Sai usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Taliyah?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter to Taliyah.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower win rate compared to Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Rek'Sai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rek'Sai into Taliyah.
Moreover, Rek'Sai also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a somewhat poor counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rek'Sai against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai to counter Taliyah during both the lane 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Rek'Sai versus Taliyah build consist of Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Black Cleaver. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Taliyah than with most other common builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Taliyah with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Taliyah as Rek'Sai, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Taliyah face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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