Taliyah vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Taliyah
based on 1,261 Taliyah vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Zed
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.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Taliyah vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Taliyah vs. Zed counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Taliyah normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Zed
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when trying to fight Zed, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a poor counter to Zed.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Zed.
Moreover, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taliyah is a bad counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Zed.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taliyah
Additional Information for Taliyah Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taliyah versus Zed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 46.3% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zed as Taliyah, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Zed fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zed as Taliyah are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.