Talon vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Talon
based on 1,339 Talon vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Xayah
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.
Advice to Win Against Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Talon vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Talon against Xayah counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xayah..
Talon often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Xayah
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Who is Better, Talon or Xayah?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually wins when taking on Xayah, with a 53.5% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a great counter for Xayah.
While Talon does have a higher winrate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Talon into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Xayah matchups, Talon is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Talon is a great counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen 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 typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xayah. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Talon versus Xayah build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 53.5% when playing against Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Xayah as Talon, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Talon vs Xayah matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% winrate overall.
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