Talon vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Talon
based on 1,105 Talon vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Talon vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Talon in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Talon vs. Heimerdinger counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Talon or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes an ok counter to Heimerdinger.
While Talon does have a higher winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Heimerdinger matchups, Talon is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Talon is a decent counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Talon versus Heimerdinger build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Talon used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Talon, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Talon vs Heimerdinger clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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