[Top 3] TFT Best Taliyah Builds That Are Powerful

Best Taliyah Builds in TFT
Updated:
27 Aug 2023

The girl who knows how to control the sand is back in TFT, with Taliyah knocking up her enemies not once but multiple times, dealing a lot of damage.

Taliyah is a tier 2 champion that can be used in many comps that have the Shurima or multicast trait activated.

In this article, we will mention the combos to place Taliyah in, her best items, and how to make sure you take out your enemies with her sand skills.

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Go ahead, push me. We'll both find out what I'm made of!

Taliyah is a great pick in the early rounds as she shares both the Shurima trait, which grants Shurima members extra damage.

She also shares the multicast trait, which allows her to cast her ability multiple times.

Taliyah’s stats, traits, and items are all to be discussed down below to make sure you get the best outcome from placing her on your team.

 

Best Taliyah builds in TFT Set 9

Taliyah’s stats:

  • Cost: 2 Gold
  • Health: 550 / 990 / 1782
  • Mana: 60
  • Armor: 20
  • MR: 20
  • Ability Power: 100
  • DPS: 28 / 50 / 91
  • Damage: 40 / 72 / 130
  • Atk Spd: 0.7
  • Crit Rate: 25%
  • Range: 4

 

Taliyah’s traits:

1. Shurima

Every 4 seconds, Shuriman heal 5% maximum Health. After 8 seconds, select Shuriman Ascend and gain 33% max Health and 45% Attack Speed.

  • 3 The strongest Shuriman Ascends
  • 5 All Shurimans Ascend
  • 7 Instead, Ascend at combat start, +25% Ascension bonus
  • 9 Ascend twice, at combat start and after 8 seconds, +25% Ascension bonus

2. Multicaster

Multicasters cast their Ability multiple times. Bonus casts have 66% reduced effectiveness.

  • 2 1 extra cast
  • 4 2 extra casts

 

Taliyah’s ability

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Seismic Shove

Passive: Whenever an enemy is knocked up or back by anything, throw a boulder towards them. It deals magic damage to the first enemy hit.

Active: Deal magic damage to your target and knock them up, stunning them for 2 seconds.

  • Spell Damage: 160% / 240% / 370%
  • Boulder Damage: 125% / 190% / 290%

 

Carousel priority:

These are the components you would need to focus on since the very first circle in order as you will need them to build up the required items for the team in most of the comps you will find bellow:

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Taliyah’s best items

1. Giant Slayer

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Grant 15% bonus Attack Damage and 15 bonus Ability Power. Abilities and attacks deal 30% more damage to enemies with more than 1600 maximum Health.

2. Jeweled Gauntlet

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Grant 15 bonus Ability Power and 15% Critical Strike Chance.

Damage from an Ability can critically strike.

3. Rabadon's Deathcap

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Grants 70 bonus Ability Power

 

Best comps for Taliyah

3. SAND WITH STRATEGY

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Synergies:

  • 4 Strategist
  • 3 Demacia
  • 3 Shurima
  • 2 Sorcerer
  • 2 Multicast
  • 2 Juggernaut

This composition is based on many traits, but the main one is the strategy trait, which makes the backlines stronger and gives the frontlines a shield.

Best group to build this:

1. Lux is one of the strongest sorcerers because she has the traits of both a sorcerer and a Demacia, which gives her a lot of power.

2. Azir is the second source of power because he has the Shurima and Strategist traits, which give him a lot of extra stats.

3. Garen is a great frontliner because he has both the Juggernaut and Demacia traits, which make him a great tank who can do a lot of damage in the frontline.

4. As a tactician and multicaster, Teemo will do good damage from the backlines with his shrooms.

5. Jarvan is a good choice because he gives the team both the Demacia and tactician traits and stuns the enemy team.

6. Nasus would be a great tank because he has the Shurima and Juggernaut traits, which give him a lot of extra life.

7. Swain is an important choice because he has both the magician and the strategist traits.

8. Taliyah is a great choice because, as a multicaster, she can hit multiple enemies at once and she also has the Shurima trait.

2. LOTS OF SKILLS

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Synergies:

  • 3 Strategist
  • 4 Multicaster
  • 3 yordle
  • 3 demaciaz

This comp is based on the magic and multicasting traits, and it uses champions with low costs.

This is a slow reroll to level 8 with a strong economy to make sure you win your game and get your low-tier champions to level 3.

Best group to build this:

1. Teemo will do most of the damage because he has the yordle trait and the multicasting trait, which lets him throw two mushrooms instead of one.

2. Poppy is a good choice for the front lines because she is like both Demacia and Yordle.

3. Kled is the third yordle while taking damage on the front lines.

4. Jarvan IV will be the third Demacia member, and he will stun enemies.

5. As a demacia and multicasting member, Sona will do a lot of damage from the backlines.

6. Vel'Koz is the third member with multiple abilities who will do good damage from the back lines.

7. Taliyah is the fourth member of a multicasting group to hit targets twice.

8. A lot of damage will be done to Swain in the front lines.

1. FULL SANDS

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Synergies:

  • 7 Shurima
  • 2 Strategist
  • 2 Bastion
  • 2 Invoker

This comp is based around the Shurima trait, which makes all of the champions start the fight ascension, which gives them more healing and faster attack speed.

The main people who do damage for you are Azir and Cassiopia.

This comp's best build is:

1. As a Shurima, Azir is one of the main damage makers. He gets faster attacks and healing, and he shares the strategist trait, which makes the front line more durable and gives the back line more damage.

2. Nasus is a great defensive character who is also a shurima.

3.Cassiopia is a great choice for the backlines, especially early in the game, because she can do a lot of damage from the backlines.

4.Taliyah would be a good choice because she is also a shurima and can use her three chalices of power to help Cassiopia and Azir.

5. Jarvan and Azir will both have the feature "Strategist," which helps both the front lines and the back lines.

6. Shen is a must-have because he would share the stronghold trait, which makes him more tanky, and the invoker trait, which would help the team make more mana.

7. Renekton would share the shurima trait and take a lot of damage in the front lines because of it.

8. K'Sante is a good choice for this team because he is a tank and shares traits with Shen. He is also the seventh member of the Shurima.

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