Talon with Kassadin
How to Synergize Talon and Kassadin
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Talon Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Talon with Kassadin
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 Understand How Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Talon Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Talon in LoL
The Talon Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kassadin helps Talon perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is an ally to Kassadin, he gets a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kassadin doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Kassadin on the same side, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of protecting Talon during teamfights.
Synergies between Talon and Kassadin
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Is Talon better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top ally for Talon that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Kassadin is a very typical teammate for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.9%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Talon and Kassadin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Talon. That means you need to be careful when finding Kassadin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Talon and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Talon in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Talon and Kassadin synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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