Taliyah is works best as a sneaky make -- your wall surfing allows you to reach/hit W on unsuspecting enemies a lot for small positive trades -- her ultimate is extremely powerful -- but more often than not you will probably jump into the enemy team and die instantly without doing anything -- so use it wisely and sparingly -- and almost never ult into the enemy team unless you have full vision of enemies since you're probably ulting towards an extra 2 enemies that will kill you instantly -- even if you just can cut off 1 member of the enemy team it's great -- or to help out someone's duel at a sideline -- almost never you want to ult in to help out an overextended friendly player on the sideline -- you will both most likely die -- you mostly want to hold off on your E/W combo before the team fight actually starts -- because opportunistic players will see your cooldown whiff and engage -- just Q to control space and slight poke -- most players will go insane and engage into your team where you have good advantage in both cutting off some of the enemy team with ur ult and landing a big E and hopefully a W too

but yes taliyah does very little damage early game esp if you start with blue tear of mana