Talon vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Talon
based on 3,733 Talon vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Samira
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.
Talon vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Talon versus Samira counter stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Samira..
Talon usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Samira. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Samira
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Who is Better, Talon or Samira?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when trying to fight Samira, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a bad counter to Samira.
While Talon does have a lower winrate than Samira, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Samiraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Talon against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often gets a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Talon versus Samira build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Samira than with many other common item sets. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Samira as Talon, Talon players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Talon vs Samira counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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