Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 on this page show some vital Kai'Sa versus Taliyah counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..
Kai'Sa normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Taliyah.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Taliyah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Taliyah during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average gets more CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Taliyah build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Taliyah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Taliyah as Kai'Sa, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Kai'Sa vs Taliyah clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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