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 important Yuumi against Taliyah matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a bad counter to Taliyah.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Taliyah.
Additionally, Yuumi has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter for Taliyah. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Taliyah.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Yuumi versus Taliyah build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Yuumi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Taliyah than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Taliyah as Yuumi, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Yuumi vs Taliyah battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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