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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Talon Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Talon perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is paired with Graves, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Graves supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Graves on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Talon during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Talon that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Talon. By playing on the same side as Talon, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Talon and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Talon. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Graves comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Talon players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Talon and Graves together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Talon in order to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Talon and Graves synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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