Hi ladies and gents! My name is Alp (Turkey,17,male). And this is my first guide; Talon The Burstpwner
I met this game cause of one of my friends and I LOVED it! While I was leveling up and saving some IP to buy another assassin, I met Talon and I said myself "That's the one!". I saved 6300 IP and bought Talon in the end. But at the beginning, I was very very bad with him (If you are new with Talon read next sentence carefully!). Because I didn't know his ability of bursting down squishies or low-healthed hostiles, and if you want to play with Talon deadly, YOU HAVE TO FOCUS ALL OF YOUR SKILLS IN ONE TARGET. I didn't understand that like first 3-4 days with him and my friends just complained about Talon like "He's not a nice champ", "He's a total loser" etc. So don't worry about Talon when you are in the "meeting duration" with him. Your hands will get how to play with him in a couple games and you will have the reflexes of his skills.
But be careful, Talon is a little squishy. If you get focused during a fight, pop your ultimate or just flash outta there, your choice.
And remember " A kill is not worth to a death"* (I think Phreak said that)
*there are situations that can be an exception, your choice anyway

Pros
+ Insane burst damage
+ Nice CC
+ Noxian Diplomacy has a funny CD and can hit CRIT (I hit +1.2k with it several times)
+ Looks and can be played like a real assassin
+ Nice mobility after you get your Cloak and Dagger (if you didn't get what I ment, wait until items section)
+ Awesome ganker
+ Hilarious trolling with Shadow Assault (pop it and run opposite direction if it's safe but be careful, don't do it so often otherwise enemy can chase you easily)
+ Crushes faces with his Shadow Assault if fed well ^^
Cons
- Quite squishy
- Slow until you get your Cloak and Dagger then Boots of Mobility
- Can be crushed early if you solo-top against champs like Olaf/ Xin Zhao/ Lee Sin/ Sion when opposite team has no jungler or AFK etc.

21-0-9
The reason I build like this is my way of harrassment. I use cutthroat- Noxian Diplomacy- Rake combo a lot, or I just Rake the target, so we need that mana regen.

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21-9-0
Kinda defensive Mastery tree but I don't prefer it. However, it's your choice.

ARMOR PENETRATION

We are a burst AD assassin and I use this rune build in my games and it supports the damage enormously

EARLY AD

Grants a like +8,5 AD whole game, which is useless in my opinion.

FULL AD

Grants 22 AD whole game. It's a nice bonus but, there's nothing to support your damage (I ment Armor Penetration)

Let's math!

20 AD costs 830 => 2x Long Sword

It's a low price and we build The Brutalizer first so if we get this bonus we will get a nice damage bonus but it will lose it's effectiveness in mid and late game.
Let's not waste IP and time to buy this runes. Their bonuses will be useless after 15-20 mins in game.

Flash

This summoner spell is very versatile. The sudden blink wherever you want in its range can save your life or grant a kill. Or you can just troll the people who towerdives to you when you are very low. Works with your ulti as a nice escaping tool*.

* First pop ur ulti and run your escaping direction, cause the bonus MS you can get out enought but if someone is chasing (like freaking mobile champs Master Yi or Shaco) flash on a wall so it buys you the enough time to escape.


Exhaust

Oh another nice summoner spell! When you chase or duel someone that will be your best gun. That will stick your target to ground for 2.5 seconds and reduces the AS of the target champ and AP damage and all actives of items.
And also someone chase you (Like Master Yi) Exhaust him and run the f.ck away while you're laughing him cuz he wasted his ultimate.

ALTERNATIVES

Really? I don't think another alternative for Talon

Clairvoyance: Gotta be kidding me!

Ghost: I tried this and really this is not needed! Don't have any use with Talon, I think.

Heal: OK! It changes the duels course, it saves lives but I think it's noobish unless you are a support or supportank champ.

Cleanse: Hmm, nice spell really. I used to use it and it works well but since you got tenacity, don't need it that much.

Clarity: Where is your mind! BTW writing this reminded me this song, I LOVE IT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHl0wpagFc

Teleport: Nice gank spell cuz you can teleport to wards in the bushes with it! Another usage of this is you can push turrets very quickly with it. Example: Pushing top and you got the first turret, recall, replenish and teleport wherever you want to push or gank!

Passive: mercy

Talon deals %10 bonus damage on enemies which got slowed, stuned, silenced or snared etc.
Works well with your W and E, grants freaking nice damage output all the game.

"Q" Noxian Diplomacy

This ability crushes faces if you get The Brutalizer. Really good damage and nice DoT effect during 6 seconds after you hit an enemy with this, almost ensures the kill if you can use all your abilites well.

"W" Rake

This is our main harrass skill, and if you use it well, it can be very versatile. 2 hostiles chasing you but you have 2-3 cm between them? Pop this and they will suffer a great slow effect and no more danger!

"E" cutthroat

I think it's the best blink in the game! With its silence, you can avoid the sudden reflex of kinda CC from your opponent, ensures you to hit all of your abilities safely(that actually depends on situation, nevermind.). And it really distracts enemies in a teamfight, it can get the focus on you or outta you depending on the usage.
It also amplifies the damage Talon makes for 3 seconds.

"R" Shadow Assault

Nice damage and escape skill. It has two waves; 1. Poping it sends a wave of blades every direction and makes you invisible for -approximately- 3 seconds (This invisiblity cannot be detected by Oracle, several players said me).
2. Pressing "R" again will pull the blades back to yourself, so enemies are damaged again (every enemy can be damaged two times in this skill and your W)
If you are in a teamfight with low health, pop it. If there are low healthed enemies, they will die most possibly. You can also use it in a duel after first wave of your skill combo.

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COMBO OF TALON

E-Autoattack-Q-W-R

The reason why I make an auto-attack after cutthroat is, your Noxian Diplomacy resets the Auto-attack timer. So you hit an auto-attack and a Q so the damage you made your enemy increases nicely (And thanks to your cutthroat's damage amplifying, the damage output you make is increases.)

youmuu’s ghostblade

These four items are what you need to damage, chase and survive.

youmuu’s ghostblade

30 Attack Damage/ +%15 Critical Strike Chance / %15 CDR / +20 Armor Pen.
Active: Gives %20 movement speed and %50 attack speed for 4 seconds. Attacking enemies with melee attacks increases the duration by 2 seconds to a maximum of 8 secods. (60 sec. CD)

Really nice item with nice tools to chase, duel and burst. Worths every single golden coin you paid.

Bloodthirster

+60 attack damage and %15 lifesteal
( Bonus stack: Every monster or minion grants +1 damage and %0.25 lifesteal MAX: 40 Damage and %10 Lifesteal)

Another very nice item! Stack is lethal to opponents, grants you +100 damage and %25 lifesteal when the stack is completed.

Infinity Edge

+80 Attack damage +%25 Critical Chance Passive: +%50 Critical Damage

That passive will crush faces with your Noxian Diplomacy! One of this will be enough, it’s pointless to stack two of this.

Frozen Mallet

+700HP +20 Attack damage Passive: Physical attacks will reduce targets movement speed %40 for 2.5 seconds (%30 for ranged attacks).

This item completes our core set. It will lock you to your target and grants you the kill in a duel (If a Master Yi pops his Highlander, this effect won’t affect him, Exhaust him instead.

Heavy CC Enemy

We’ll need both Tenacity and Movement speed, and Cloak and Dagger has nice Attack Speed and Critical Chance bonus and we get Movement speed bonus from Mobility Boots’s passive. I usually use this build because enemy usually has enough CC to be pain in your .ss. It’s both good at chasing and running.
Squishy and Poor on CC Enemy

They are squishy and you got your damage, that’s enough. If they damage you well get a Guardian Angel or Banshee's Veil , but if they can’t damage you lethally, go with Trinity Force build, your choice. But I prefer bashee’s veil way because of it’s passive.

If you are laning with champs who has any CC, that will be nice! He'll stun and you will E-Q your target so your damage output will be increased %10, legen-wait for it-dary!

A squishy teammate is getting owned almost but they are still chasing him? Run and W them! Slow will grant him some time to run away.