Riot August shared the upcoming Taliyah Mid-Scope Update, slated for patch 12.9.

Highlights:

(+) AoE Q, lower Q CD, Worked ground Q is STRONG, E is longer range and stuns dashers, significant usability improvements on P, W, and R

(-) Nerfs to burst damage and early roaming

Feedback welcome!

Taliyah mid-scope update

• Stats: Armor: 20 >>> 18
• HP: 531 >>> 500
• MP/5: 9.34 + 85/lvl >>> 8 + 8/lvl
• Mana: 425 >>> 470

P - early roaming down, usability up

• OOC MS: 20%-45% by lvl 18 >>> 10/20/35/55% @ 1/9/12/15
• Time before passive falls off away from walls: 1s >>> 2.5s
• Fixed a bug where Taliyah could lose her passive permanently if she had a spell shield.

Q - CD down, Added AoE, Worked ground Q reworked to be significantly stronger, Damage down

• NEW: now deals damage in an 175 radius Aoe
• Damage: 70-170(+ 45AP) >>> 38-130(+ 5 AP)
• Extra rock damage reduction: 50% >>> 60%
• Max Q damage: 210-510(+1.35AP) >>> 98.8-338 (+1.3 AP)
• Cooldown: 7-3 >>> 6.5-2.5
• Cost: 50-90 >>> 60-80

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• NEW: Worked ground cast is a single hit boulder, hits in an 225 radius AoE, deals 2x damage (76-260(+1.0AP)) to the primary target, and slows everything hit by 30-50% for 2s
• NEW: Worked ground cast has new VFX, SFX, animation, and icons.
• Worked ground mana cost: 1 >>> 30
• Worked ground min CD: 1s >>>.75s
• NEW: Casting on worked ground consumes the worked ground
• Worked Ground radius: 300 >>> 400
• Worked Ground Duration: 25s >>> 30s
• Worked ground size on Howling Abyss is now the same as summoners rift
• Extra rock damage reduction on jungle monster: 25% >>> 60% (same as normal Q) NEW: Q deals 150% damage to monsters.
• NEW: Will now continue to cast while Taliyah is in stasis
• Fixed a bug where Worked Ground Q would sometimes not get the reduced cooldown

W - CD and mana cost down, Reliability up, Damage removed

• Damage: 60-140(+ 4 AP) >>> REMOVED
• Delay before knockup: .8 >>> .65
• AoE radius: 200 >>> 225
• Cooldown: 16-12 >>> 14-8
• Mana cost: 70-110 >>> 60-0

E - Up-front damage, range, and duration up, Added a stun vs. dashes, detonation damage down, CD up

• NEW: Mines stun enemies that dash through them for 1s
• Up front damage: 50-150(+ 4AP) >>> 60-240(+6 AP)
• Damage after 4s: 50-150(+ 4AP) >>> REMOVED
• Detonation damage: 50-90(+ 3AP) >>> 25-105 (+ 3AP)
• Damage reduction per mine: 15% >>> 25%
• Max detonation damage: 155-279(+93AP) >>> 62.5-262.5 (+.75 AP)
• Cooldown: 16-8 >>>16-12
• Number of rows (range): 4 >>> 6
• Mines per row (width): 6 >>> 4
• Mine spawn delay between rows (effects how fast they go out): .1 >>> 17
• Delay after cast time before first mine spawns: 1s >>> 0
• Field duration: 4 >>> 5

R: Later range up, Usability up, added a leap off the wall, early range down

• Range: 3000-6000 >>> 2500-6500
• Damage no longer knocks Taliyah off her wall
• NEW: Cannot cast within 3s of taking damage from an enemy champion or structure.
• Moving jumps off the wall perpendicular to the direction of travel >>> Moving causes Taliyah to dash to the location she clicked, up to a maximum dash range.
• Jump off dash range: 400 >>> 700
• Jump off dash speed: 1000 >>> 1200
• Jump off dash now has more forgiveness when attempting to dash through a wall.

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