Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 feature several significant Tristana against Taliyah counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Tristana typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Taliyah, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a poor counter for Taliyah.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Taliyah.
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Tristana versus Taliyah build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Taliyah as Tristana, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Tristana vs Taliyah clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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