Talon Build Guide by Mpegial

The: How to be a Talon main

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Runes: Highest Burst Damage

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Domination

Electrocute

Sudden Impact

Eyeball Collection

Ultimate Hunter

Precision

Triumph

Coup de Grace

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Ranked #17 in
Middle Lane

Win 52%

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Items

Staring Items

First Back

Vision

Great For Tanks/Survivability

Overall Great

Max Damage

Bruiser

Boots

Optional Items/Situational

Highest Damage

Highest Survivability

Medium Survivability/Medium Damage

My Favorite Build

The Meta boring build

Ability Order

Talon Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Ornn

Ideal

Ornn's enhanced item alone is extremely useful, but he also posses a good amount of CC to catch enemies.

Champion Build Guide

Introduction

So to main it is mandatory to learn his lore (Not really but here we go anyways :D).

lives in Noxus as a hood rat, killing for profits, with time he became so well known General Du Couteau took an interest and sent assassins to recruit , after which their dead bodies were left to be found as his answer, which made the General himself go and fight him, their fight ended with s defeat, than the General offered him two choices Live and serve or Die. chose to serve but under the condition that he would serve only the General because he lost to him and he will only respect him. At some point General Du Couteau vanished and none knew where he was, upon learning this thought about escaping, but through his years of service his respect only grew and he became loyal to the General thus since than he has been searching for him.

As for gameplay isn't difficult to play nor master, however that doesn't mean he is easy to win with, main reason being the Late game if you get to that point the game will suddenly be much! harder, generally speaking he is a Solid champion with amazing early game and an extremely strong Roam.

Abilities In Detail

1. is applying a mark whenever an enemy is hit by an ability that deals damage. After getting 3 marks on an enemy once you auto attack that enemy they will bleed for a few seconds taking bleeding damage.

2. can act as a gap closer since it makes leap to the target dealing damage and applying a mark, if in melee range will perform a critical strike with his

3. throws 3 blades applying 1 marks once when they come out and hit and 1 on the way back, it also slows the enemy hit on the way back for 40% at level 1 and 60% at max rank.

4. throws 12 blades outwards from 's location dealing damage making him invisible for a short time and reactivating the ability will pull the blades towards dealing damage and applying a mark , if the enemy is auto attacked or hit by during the the blades will converge upon the target hit applying a mark. (Note: if is used during this ultimate the ultimate will not converge on the target and will cancel the invisibility).

5.At last allows to jump over any wall setting that one wall in a cooldown during that cooldown can not jump over the same wall , it also allows to jump over champion made walls.

Runes

These are your two Main Runes that you should be using with , and can use , or as secondary ones.

DOMINATION

is for the sole reason that you want to do more Burst damage and kill your enemy faster, it works really well with and to get the proc instantly hence the "Burst Damage". could be good however we want to kill them instantly and not get them to 50% to get the benefit of the extra damage. As for and they are out of the question as the benefits are near nonexistent for as one heavily relies on attack speed and the other on consistent movement speed.

is really helpful as it works with both abilities and normal attacks, however depending on the matchup it might be better to take for champions like , and for more stationary enemies like . Nonetheless is also really useful for survivability when combined with .

is great as it gives extra AD, but personally I believe is better as it does the same effect as well as greatly boost your vision on the map and keep you a lot more safe, something similar could be said about however it is under the assumption that you will be destroying enemy wards which requires and you won't be taking that every time thusly making the rune unstable for .

doesn't need attack speed or cooldown reduction, in other words all you need is AD and Armor or Magic Resist depending on your enemy.

PRECISION

is the absolute best choice for as it gives you extra AD as well as heal you at maximum stacks of (12) for 15% of your physical damage, as well as making a really good combo with and to give you amazing survivability especially in a fight of attrition against enemies that have a lot of healing like or that have built life steal. is a decent second choice however if you were to pick that it would honestly be better to pick as a main rune as it is lacking in comparison, and are out of the question as they give zero value to s abilities or playstyle.

is the top tier out of the 3 choices you have for one simple reason, the moment you "kill" an enemy it heals you for 12% of your "missing" health as well as give you an extra 20 Gold, which is extremely useful for as you plan to kill a lot and not stand in the backline as a support. isn't bad and it works with , and well but at the end of the day you aren't a tank like that has a massive health pool and innate life steal to abuse this rune, as for it's not terrible but the benefits are too small compared to the other two.

is very solid at max stacks (20) as it gives 12% life steal and it pairs really well with , is also really good, but note that it should be taken against enemies that have really heavy CC, and as for it isn't completely useless as attack speed is useful to everyone but it's extremely low priority for

Lastly same deal as before raw AD for both status runes and the other armor or magic resist depending on your enemy.

Talon Combos

s combos are mostly to maximize damage but can be used to zone enemies too.

1. Early Game: > > AA

2. Early Gmae: > AA> > AA

3. Standar Combo: > > AA> > AA

4.Secure Kill: > > > AA

5. Big Boi Damage: > > AA> > AA

6. Quick Kill: > > AA

7. One Shot: > > > AA

Farming

Farming is extremely important and if you can manage to get a really! good early lead you can buy to push the wave easily and roam as much as you like, however if not you can just farm with and , now keep in mind that while farming for may seem less important, especially when you are ahead in kills don't make that mistake because, the more you kill the less Gold you get so farming is as a total more profitable.

Team Work

Team work, this is an interesting matter with , as you may know doesn't have any abilities other than that could be helpful in assisting his team. However has very high mobility and due to that he has a few options to help his allies, the most crucial one is Ganking, it is very important have map awareness. Having map awareness helps you know when to gank or not.

Another way to help your team is a simply assassination, is an assassin and thus getting to the backline of the enemy and killing their weakest (Or members with the lowest health) targets helps your team charge in more easily without worrying about Damage and Crowd Control.

Is Talon Good For Ranked?

So, yes and no. Any champion can be played for ranked, is really good at the early to mid game, however past that he starts becoming less and less useful, in other words you need to finish the game relatively faster. His potential fully depends on how good You are with him as with all champions, regardless yes he can be very good as long as you get kills fairly early and help your team overall with vision, ganking, or simply getting rid of the most troublesome enemy.

A little outro

Thank you very much for reading the Guide to the end, I hope it helped you understand the champion better, and give you interest in playing him.

Now please go on and get First Blood on all those mages, and most of all have Fun