Taliyah
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Good (6.5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Taliyah is a technical champion whose effectiveness depends heavily on board management and specific relic synergies. While she offers a unique landmark-focused playstyle that can overwhelm opponents with skill damage and wide boards, she is often considered more difficult to pilot than other region alternatives. Her performance improves significantly with high constellation investment and the acquisition of specific Epic or Paid relics, making her better suited for stacked accounts than fresh ones.
Elemental Skill Engine
Provides a massive boost to the damage of Threaded Volley and other rock-throwing skills, which are Taliyah's primary finishers.
Guarantees a Taliyah on board by turn 4 and provides a landmark for her to duplicate, potentially creating three copies of her simultaneously.
Further amplifies skill damage, which scales exponentially when multiple copies of Taliyah are on the board.
Strategy
This build focuses on maximizing the damage of Taliyah's Threaded Volley. By using Frozen Tomb to summon additional copies of Taliyah and duplicating the landmark with her play effect, you can fill the spell stack with enough skill triggers to end games instantly. The combination of Icon of Valhir and Luden's Tempest ensures that even small volleys deal significant damage.
Titanic Manaflow
Grants an extra starting mana gem when combined with stat-boosting relics to reach Titanic status.
Increases stats to meet the Titanic requirement for Starforged Gauntlets while providing Sharpsight to deal with Elusive threats.- Acts as a consistent landmark source for leveling and provides a free champion summon.
Strategy
This setup is designed for consistency and speed on stacked accounts. The extra starting mana allows for much earlier development of landmarks and followers. Reaching Titanic status through Luminous Orb enables Starforged Gauntlets, effectively accelerating Taliyah's gameplan by a full turn.
Budget Landmark Aggro
Grants Overwhelm to the entire board, which is essential for Taliyah's rockbears to push damage through chump blockers.- A standard tool to increase the damage of her level 2 skills.
Provides additional rerolls to fish for essential powers like Titanic Wake or Trifarian Might during an adventure.
Strategy
For fresh accounts, Taliyah functions as an aggressive board-centric deck. Since her units are often large but lack evasion, The Beast Within ensures your big units can actually finish the game. This build relies more on drafting strong synergistic powers than specific relic combos.
Other Relic Options
Useful for managing board space by consuming units and concentrating their stats into Taliyah.
Increases the quality of drafted items and powers, which is vital for a deck that relies on high-impact support units.
Provides a powerful defensive and offensive swing by stunning the board upon Taliyah's level up.
While skill damage is the primary focus, Taliyah can also be played as a 'filler' champion where the relics focus on supporting the drafted deck rather than Taliyah herself. Corrupted Star Fragment is particularly notable for solving her persistent board space issues.
Constellation
Taliyah's constellation focuses on accelerating her landmark-based tempo and increasing her board-wide lethality. She is often considered non-functional for high-difficulty content until she reaches at least 3 stars. Her upgrades shift her from a slow rockbear generator into a technical skill-damage powerhouse.
Good Morning, Grumpy
Game Start: Summon a Hibernating Rockbear.
Recycled Stone
+1 Starting Mana. When an allied landmark is destroyed, grant allies +1|+0.
Good Morning, Grumpy II
Game Start: Summon a Hibernating Rockbear. Allies have +1|+1 and Overwhelm.
Supple Stone
Each round, the first time you play a landmark, refill mana equal to its cost.Review
Crucial for mana efficiency. The refund on landmark play allows you to develop your board and hold mana for interaction or additional units in the same turn.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Standard stat and mana increase that provides the baseline required to survive aggressive early-game encounters in higher-tier adventures.
Throw Another Rock!
When an ally attacks, it plays Threaded Volley. Your spells and skills deal 1 extra damage for each allied Landmark.Review
Transformative upgrade that turns every attacking unit into a source of rock-throwing skill damage. However, it requires careful management of the 10-skill stack limit and board space. When combined with Icon of Valhir, it trivializes most encounters by dealing lethal damage before the opponent can act.
Gameplay Tips
- Manage Board Space Aggressively
Taliyah's greatest weakness is board clogging. Landmarks and the skills generated by her 6-star power consume space and stack priority. Avoid drafting units that summon extra landmarks (like Dais) unless you have a way to destroy or consume them, as they will prevent Taliyah from duplicating her most valuable targets.
- Fish for Stat-Scaling Powers
Because Taliyah's base deck relies on summoned units like Hibernating Rockbears, powers like Titanic Wake or Trifarian Might are significantly more impactful for her than for most other champions. These allow your landmarks to provide immediate board presence that can trade with big enemies.
- Prioritize the Support Champion
In scenarios where you cannot find Taliyah, or her landmark setup is too slow, shift your focus to the support champion. Taliyah's star powers provide generic stat buffs and Overwhelm, which can turn low-cost support packages into credible threats while you wait for your landmark countdowns.
- Fill the Spell Stack
When playing at 6 stars, Taliyah can fill the spell stack with up to 10 skill triggers. Since the AI cannot respond with fast or slow spells once the stack is full, use this to 'lock' your opponent out of using removal or combat tricks during your lethal attack.
- Utilize Landmark Destruction
Taliyah has built-in landmark destruction. Use this not just for her level-up, but to free up board space for bigger units or to trigger 'on destroy' effects from items found during the adventure.