If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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!
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Evelynn versus Taliyah matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taliyah. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Evelynn usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually fairs equally well when taking on Taliyah, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes an ok counter for Taliyah.
While Evelynn does have a lower win rate compared to Taliyah, when facing one another, Evelynn also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Evelynn into Taliyahas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Evelynn against Taliyah.
To truly master Evelynn to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn usually accumulates a lot less CS as Taliyah. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Evelynn versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Taliyah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Taliyah as Evelynn, Evelynn players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Evelynn vs Taliyah clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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