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Taliyah Jungle Wild Rift Guide
Taliyah jungle counters include Ekko, Evelynn, and Fizz. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Keep clearing while watching nearby lanes Use your 1st ability to throw rocks at camps from range, then move toward a gank when an enemy is exposed.
- Push enemies through your rock field Place your 3rd ability in the enemy's path, then use your 2nd ability to throw them across the rocks for extra damage.
- Use your wall to cut off escape Use your ultimate to build a wall across an enemy's escape route when your teammates are ready to catch them.
Strengths
- Her poke and percent-health burn out-range and wear down the immobile farmers and health stackers she is built to punish.
- Her global wall turns every lane into a flank or a pick, giving her map pressure no other jungler matches.
- Seismic Shove (2nd) and Unraveled Earth (3rd) are real lockdown, letting her peel divers and set up picks for her team.
Weaknesses
- Squishy and immobile once her wall is spent, so any assassin or early duelist who reaches her wins instantly.
- All her damage is skillshots, so a missed volley or shove achieves nothing.
- Her early clear and dueling are average, so aggressive junglers can invade and bully her before she scales.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Taliyah Jungle Counters
Who counters Taliyah Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Taliyah in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Ekko: Ekko ignores the ground you control, blinking through your zone with Phase Dive (3rd) and landing on your fragile frame before your wall matters, and his stun into combo kills you in one go.
- Evelynn: Evelynn picks the fight from stealth, so your range means nothing when you never see her coming, and once her charm holds you in place her burst kills your fragile frame.
- Fizz: Fizz hops untargetable through Seismic Shove (2nd) and your poke with Playful (3rd) Trickster (3rd), so the spacing your whole game depends on breaks down the moment he commits, and you cannot peel him off.
Champions Taliyah Is Strong Against
Taliyah's best matchups in Wild Rift. Taliyah holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Diana: Diana has to land on top of you to do anything, and Seismic Shove (2nd) throws her out of her own all-in while Unraveled Earth (3rd) punishes the ground her reset lands on.
- Lee Sin: Lee Sin needs to dash in to fight, and your kit denies that approach: an empowered Threaded Volley (1st) from Worked Ground can slow him, Seismic Shove (2nd) throws him back out, and Unraveled Earth (3rd) punishes his landing spot.
- Graves: Graves only hurts up close, and your kit keeps him out: he eats poke on every approach, arrives already low, and Seismic Shove (2nd) pushes him away whenever he tries to close.
Early Game
Use full Threaded Volley (1st) from fresh ground to hit the whole camp, then step onto Worked Ground and use the Boulder while repositioning for the next cast. Lay Unraveled Earth (3rd) through the camp and use Seismic Shove (2nd) to force the large monster across its stones, speeding up the clear while briefly interrupting its attacks. A clean clear comes from cycling these interactions without standing still between casts. For ganks, cast Unraveled Earth (3rd) first, then aim Seismic Shove (2nd) to knock the target across its stones. Forced movement triggers up to five detonations; only the first stuns that target, and later detonations deal reduced damage. Ordinary walking through the field only takes the initial hit and slow.
Mid Game
Taliyah approaches objective fights by claiming ground before either team commits. Unraveled Earth (3rd) denies the ground the enemy needs to stand on, so shove the first person who steps up and let your team collapse on whoever you peeled or threw. Contest when your team is ahead on early fights; when it is even, take Herald and give up the dragon, since your wall converts a tower faster than most, unless your team is built to fight for soul. Between objectives, clear a camp then ride Weaver's Wall (Ult) to a lane nobody is watching and turn a gank into a pick from an angle they never warded. Your tempo comes from the wall, not your clear speed, so keep showing up where the enemy is not.
Late Game
Late game, set Unraveled Earth (3rd) before divers dash and keep Seismic Shove (2nd) for forcing a priority target across its stones. Weaver's Wall (Ult) can divide a formation, but it can also obstruct allies and only Taliyah can ride it; once fully formed, recast to destroy it early when necessary. Do not describe it as a panic escape because incoming champion damage locks the cast for three seconds.
Teamfights
Stay in the back and shape the fight before it starts. Lay Unraveled Earth (3rd) on the chokes and dive paths so the enemy front line has to walk through mines to reach you, then poke them down with Threaded Volley (1st) as they come. Seismic Shove (2nd) is your one decisive button: peel the assassin off your carry, or throw their carry into your team and end the fight. Save Weaver's Wall (Ult) to flank, cut off a retreat, or escape a collapse, and do not waste it on nothing. The mistake that loses fights is greedy positioning, because one dash onto your squishy frame undoes everything your zone set up.