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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Talon Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Talon perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is paired with Heimerdinger, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Heimerdinger does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Talon in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Talon that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Talon and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Talon. That means you should be careful when lining up Heimerdinger comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Talon and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Talon to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Talon and Heimerdinger synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Talon players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Talon and Heimerdinger pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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