Taliyah

Taliyah left the sands of Shurima still young enough to be caught off guard by her own power, yet old enough to realize she could no longer pretend it wasn’t there.

A Wanderer Returns Home

She roamed across nearly all of Valoran, less to see the sights than to make sense of a gift that kept outpacing her grip on it. That trek has since narrowed into something more pressing: defending her own people now that she is back in Shurima, the desert realm whose empire once held sway over the region and whose fallen god-warriors are rumored to be stirring. Those who mistake her open manner for gentleness have learned their error the hard way. The warmth that makes her easy to underestimate travels alongside a resolve strong enough to shift mountains and a temper able to make the earth itself tremble.

Putting Stone to Work

A Mage and Support who can take the Mid lane or fill Support roles, Taliyah turns that same stubborn resolve into stone instead of speech. Rock Surfing sends her hurtling along any wall, transforming ground most champions see as a barrier into a route of her own. Threaded Volley rains rock fire down on a lane and leaves Worked Ground in its wake; Seismic Shove can then erupt that ground to hurl enemies wherever she likes, often right into the minefield created by Unraveled Earth, which explodes and stuns anyone pushed or dashed across it. Weaver’s Wall, her signature ability, pulls a long barrier out of the earth and lets her ride its length across the map. It’s a showy move that fits the reputation she shares with peers like Azir and Nasus: a mage whose command of the ground is total, even though her youth suggests she should still be learning.