Talk:Taliyah/@comment-27544025-20171105141821/@comment-26808509-20171116141205

First look at the ability and the potential it has. The base damage of it is insane and the AP ratio is huge for a non-ultimate ability aswell (tho Taliyahs ult doesn't deal any damage to make up for it) and to top that the Q mana cost isn't THAT high (compared to something like Lux E or Veigar W) and the cooldown of it is just bs. They HAD to limit this ability on some way and since they wanted Taliyah to interact with the ground she is standing on, this was their conclusion. If Taliyah just mindlessly spamms her Q, she will lose unworked ground and is sabotaging herself, but if she repositions wiseley and either shoves the enemies forward or kites them back, she will have a never ending barrage of high damage projectiles.

Changing it up to make her normal Q deal less damage and her worked ground Q more would be an interesting idea, but I doubt it would work out. Taliyah would have to prepare her damage more than she has to allready and it would be too easy for enemies to just avoid her worked ground. Unless Taliyah spamms her Q all over the place and wastes mana for a low damage ability just so she can use her empowered one eventually. And thematic wise it wouldn't make much sense either, because the concept of worked ground is that she allready used this piece of earth and leaves it "exhausted". That her Q deals more damage on this "exhausted" ground wouldn't really make sense.