Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Taliyah vs. Gangplank counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Taliyah normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Gangplank. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when facing off against Gangplank, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Gangplank.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Gangplank.
Moreover, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Gangplank matchups, Gangplank is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Gangplank. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Gangplank.
To truly master Taliyah in order to counter Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically accumulates less CS as Gangplank. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Taliyah versus Gangplank build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Gangplank than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Gangplank as Taliyah, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Taliyah vs Gangplank matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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