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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Talon against Taliyah counter statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually wins when playing against Taliyah, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Talon makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Talon does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Talon into Taliyahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Talon has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs Taliyah matchups, Talon is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Talon is an above average counter for Taliyah. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Taliyah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Taliyah. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Talon versus Taliyah build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Taliyah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 52.6% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Taliyah as Talon, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Talon vs Taliyah fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Taliyah as Talon are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.