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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Talon Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Talon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Talon perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is paired with Alistar, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Alistar does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Alistar on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Talon during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Talon that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical companion for Talon. By locking into the same team as Talon, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Talon and Alistar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be very careful when lining up Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Talon players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Talon and Alistar together, you will not be providing your side much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Talon to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Talon and Alistar synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use 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 combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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