Taliyah

Taliyah is an AP mage in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 50.1% win rate, 1.5% pick rate, 17,485 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Taliyah holds a fairly even power curve, staying relevant at every stage rather than relying on a single timing.

How Taliyah wins: roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 8/10 roaming, 8/10 waveclear. Play around where Taliyah is thin, mobility and split-push (3/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Archangel's Staff, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, which holds a 50.5% win rate across 707 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.

The matchup to respect is Zoe, where Taliyah sits at just 39.8%, the lane swings the other way into Orianna (55.6%), and on the team side, Taliyah gains the most from a Fiddlesticks (+7.2% pair win rate).