How to win the jungle race as Vi against Taliyah · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Vi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Taliyah.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Vi Favoured | Vault Breaker charge poke plus the Blast Shield wins the first short trade, but Threaded Volley on worked ground still chunks melee contests. You still win the straight exchange at the first buff; keep it short, keep it decisive, and keep the scuttle line yours. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Vi Favoured | Denting Blows shred starts beating slower kits in extended exchanges. Taliyah can make it awkward — a W toss into a stunning boulder field bursts you at every choke point — but not with one camp still up on both sides. Trade, then walk away with the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Vi Favoured | The full charge-engage with W shred is a clean, honest duel you slightly favor. The margin is thin: the W-into-Q burst combo plus E mine field wins fights at choke points, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Don't chase her across worked ground — the mine slow turns retreats into kills. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Vi Favoured — Take Duels | You hold the edge at 4-5, not a blowout. She uses 4-5 to shove waves and cross the map, with worked ground making her the faster rotator, so meet them where the camps are, not where their laners are. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Cease and Desist Favoured | Cease and Desist is point-click lockdown — your engage can no longer be juked. Weaver's Wall splits the map, so the margin is real but narrow: fight when your ultimate is up and Weaver's Wall is the one on cooldown. |
| First Item Spike | Sundered Sky Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive damage, health, and sustain multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or isolated targets. Taliyah's first item makes the volley-into-shove combo a real burst instead of chip damage from range. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Respect Taliyah Late — End Early | The full-build comparison goes to Taliyah: she zones with mines and splits the map with the wall whenever she wants to. Play for picks and objectives, and end before the fight has to be fair. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp utilizing your E resets to maximize early clear speed. Taliyah clears very fast with Threaded Volley on worked ground and rotates faster than almost anyone off her passive.
Ranked by the race windows in Vi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Vi vs Taliyah report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Vi's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows — Vi holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Vi's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows, so Taliyah is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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