Zed vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Zed
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Zed vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Taliyah
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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!
Zed vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Zed versus Taliyah matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taliyah. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Zed or Taliyah?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a great counter to Taliyah.
While Zed does have a higher winrate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zed into Taliyahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Taliyah matchups, Zed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a great counter for Taliyah. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Taliyah during both the lane 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 stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed versus Taliyah build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Taliyah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 53.7% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Taliyah as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zed vs Taliyah clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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