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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Talon vs. Taric counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Talon normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 44.5% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Talon does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Talon also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Talon into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Talon is a garbage counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Talon against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Taric during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon typically racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Talon versus Taric build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 44.5% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Taric as Talon, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Talon vs Taric counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.5% winrate overall.
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