Viktor vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Viktor
based on 679 Viktor vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Taliyah
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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!
Viktor vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Viktor vs. Taliyah counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Viktor typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Viktor or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a great counter to Taliyah.
While Viktor does have a much higher win rate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Taliyahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Taliyah matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Viktor is a great counter for Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Viktor 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Viktor versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Taliyah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 54.6% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Taliyah as Viktor, Viktor players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Viktor vs Taliyah counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.6% winrate overall.
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