Talon vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Talon
based on 4,748 Talon vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Brand
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Talon vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Talon in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Talon against Brand counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Brand
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Who is Better, Talon or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Talon does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Talon into Brandas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon on average accumulates more CS relative to Brand. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Talon versus Brand build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Talon bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Brand than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Brand as Talon, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Talon vs Brand LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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