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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Taliyah against Soraka matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between these two champs. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Taliyah normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Soraka, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Taliyah does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Soraka.
Additionally, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Soraka matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a decent counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Soraka.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to counter Soraka 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically picks up much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Taliyah versus Soraka build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Soraka than with most other common builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 50.9% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Soraka as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Soraka fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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