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Runes: Standard
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2
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Domination
Sorcery
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
1
2
Standard
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order Standard
Blade's End (PASSIVE)
Talon Passive Ability
Champion Build Guide
Hi, Im ignix.
Im a
Zed/
Talon player and reguraly stream at My twitch channel.
I make this guide to inform newer players about how to talon but also to expand my knowledge about him. I have been playing talon for a while now and used to main him before I started maining
Zed, I have have managed to get 110K points on him. I can confidentally say that I know the champion really well. The main reason I started playing
Talon is because of his moderate skill floor, carry potential and his ability to influence everyone/everywhere around the map.
Im a
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I make this guide to inform newer players about how to talon but also to expand my knowledge about him. I have been playing talon for a while now and used to main him before I started maining
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Pros: Amazing roamer 1 shot potential Moderate skill floor High carry potential Really fun champion No complicated mechanics |
Cons: Predictable roams Requires good macro High ban rate Bad into tanks Bad teamfight (without conq) Falls off lategame |
So? When should you pick
Talon?
Well, that's what this section of the guide is about
A good matchup
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A weak early game jungler
Something a lot of high elo talon players do is they crash the 3rd wave (cannon wave) into the tower. After that they use their jungle tracking to know where the jungler is and kill him. This works really well into weak early game junglers. If you're doing this strat always think about the jungler's power spikes. For example if you do this against an
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When shouldn't you pick
Talon?
Well this is quite simple, we pick when we SHOULD play
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Runes
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Electrocute
We take this because we really want to get into the domination tree and this is just the most valuable of the 4 keystones. It gives
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Taste of Blood
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Eyeball Collection
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Ravenous Hunter
This rune is just amazing, it heals for so much just like
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Absolute Focus
This just provides some extra damage, some extra wave clear etc etc. It's just a great rune overall for lots of situations.
Nimbus Cloak
Nimbus cloak is really good for the movement speed when catching up to opponents or running away from them. This is really a hit or miss rune, 100 or 0. You either get saved by it or you don't. If you don't feel comfortable taking this rune and want a bit of a better early game you can opt for
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Blade's End
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Don't underestimate this damage! It would surprise you how much damage this does. You can catch opponents off guard really easily with this. If they have 2 stacks up just q on them, aa and ignite. Boom half their hp gone.
Noxian Diplomacy
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Something really tricky with this ability is the decision between melee and ranged q's. Melee q's deal more damage but self stun you for 1 second. Ranged q's deal more damage but don't self stun. In a lot of scenarios you will only get a kill if you use the correct one. When you're chasing you generally want to melee q. During 1v1 situations where your opponent doesnt want to run you should melee q.
Quick tip: you can ranged q to a minion/monster to gap close.
Quick tip2: If you're low in lane and you have blue buff, last hit with q for some extra hp.
Rake
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This is your main form of wave clear together with tiamat. You just w the whole wave, tiamat + aa the backwave and then only 3 low hp melee creeps are left which you can just last hit. In lane if you try to poke with
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Assassin's Path
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This is what
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Shadow Assault
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This is a really good form of (dis)engaging since the movement speed + invisiblity allows you to come out of (almost) any situation. You can also just r into a teamfight. In teamfight you should use this ability to deal big aoe damage. just r and walk through their team, if need e out. NOTE = if you e the daggers converge back into you.
If you go all-in on someone you want to q-r always. Creating your strongest combo: W-Q-R-
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W-Q(ranged)-aa
This is your all in combo before you have
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W-Q(ranged)-aa-
Tiamat-aa
It's basically W-Q(ranged)-aa but with
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W-R-Q(ranged)-
Tiamat-aa
This is your full damage combo, this is what you're going to be doing to 1 shot squishys. Sometimes you won't use w tho if you don't need it. This is for maximum dps the most reliable combo there is. Ofcourse you can throw and ignite in there if you want. If there's any combo you wanna practice for
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R-Q(ranged)-
Tiamat-aa-W-aa
This is basiaclly W-Q(ranged)-R-
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Early game |
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Alright now that you have roamed a lot and youre only down a little cs. The mid game starts.
Mid/late game |
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Be sure to play for objectives and try to always think, that's how you're gonna improve in the long run. Just always ask yourself: "Why am I doing this?"
Thank you so much for coming to my
Talon guide!
I really enjoyed making this guide and I feel like I greatly increased my knowledge about
Talon when I did research for this guide and created a deeper undestanding of the champion for me.
If you want to thank me for this guide, the best way to do that is to check out my social media, click one of the pictures to go there.
My main platform is twitch, I stream daily for ~5 hours usually starting 1 pm CEST - 6 PM CEST
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Thanks a lot guys!
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I really enjoyed making this guide and I feel like I greatly increased my knowledge about
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If you want to thank me for this guide, the best way to do that is to check out my social media, click one of the pictures to go there.
My main platform is twitch, I stream daily for ~5 hours usually starting 1 pm CEST - 6 PM CEST
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Thanks a lot guys!
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