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.
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Talon vs. Pantheon matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Talon typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a bad counter for Pantheon.
While Talon does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Pantheonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Talon also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Pantheon.
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Talon versus Pantheon build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Pantheon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Pantheon as Talon, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Talon vs Pantheon clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Talon are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.