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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Talon versus Rumble counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rumble. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rumble, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes an ok counter for Rumble.
While Talon does have a lower winrate than Rumble, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Rumbleas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter for Rumble. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Talon against Rumble.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Talon versus Rumble build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Rumble than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rumble as Talon, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Talon vs Rumble battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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