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 provided here show some critical Zeri vs. Taliyah matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Zeri usually has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a bad counter for Taliyah.
While Zeri does have a lower winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Taliyah.
Additionally, Zeri has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zeri is a bad counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Taliyah.
If you would like to truly master Zeri 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri on average gets more CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zeri versus Taliyah build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better countering Taliyah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Taliyah as Zeri, Zeri players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zeri vs Taliyah matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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