@Riot, look at my proposal to rework Talon.

I have more than 300 ranked games with Talon, but right now I feel like he is a weak spot as he never has been. He just don't work anymore. So I believe it's time for a rework that will can make he become so strong as the best assassin picks of the game (Fizz, Zed, Leblanc)

Here is my rework proposal:

KIT:

Passive: ~~Mercy ~~ Armor Breaking Blade

• Every time Talon blades (rake/shadow assault) hits a enemy, its armor is reduced by 5% (max: 4 stacks / 20% armor reduction) for 5 seconds.

Q - Noxian Diplomacy COST: ~~40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 MANA ~~40 MANA COOLDOWN: 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4

• Talon's next autoattack within the next 6 seconds deals bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion they will also bleed for 6 seconds, granting sight of their location to Talon and taking additional physical damage each second for the duration. If Noxian Diplomacy kills a unit, its cooldown is refreshed.

W - Rake

• No changes.

E - Cutthroat RANGE: 700 COST: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 MANA COOLDOWN: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 DAMAGE AMPLIFICATION: 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15%

• Talon instantly appears behind his target, starts autoattacking him, silencing them for 1 second and amplifying his damage against that target for 3 seconds. Every time a enemy is hit by Talon blades (proc two times if rake or shadow assault hits a enemy two times), Cutthroat cooldown is reduced by 1.

R - Shadow Assault COST: 80 / 90 / 100 MANA COOLDOWN: 75 / 65 / 55

• Talon disperses blades outwards in a 500-radius 250-radius ring and gains stealth for up to 2.5 seconds while gaining 40% movement speed. When Talon emerges from stealth, the blades converge on his location. When the ring of blades expands and contracts, enemies hit receive physical damage. Each enemy can only be damaged once at the start of the ability and once at the end.

PHYSICAL DAMAGE PER HIT: 150 / 200 / 250 (+ 80% bonus AD) TOTAL PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 300 / 400 / 500 (+ 160% bonus AD)

HOW IT WORKS:

With his new passive, Talon will be able to do a lot of damage to a single target if he hits both rake and shadow assault twice on him.

His Noxian Diplomacy will allow Talon to have a way to farm more fast when the enemy is out of lane and will refresh your Q for teamfights since you kill someone.

Cutthroat will lose it silence, what will give more counterplay for the enemy to avoid Talon burst, but the ability will have it's cooldown reduced every time Talon hits anyone with his blades, what will give more mobility to Talon in teamfight, so he will can use cutthroat two or more times in the same teamfight.

Shadow Assault will deal more damage but will hit in a smaller area. This mean that instead of hitting hard two or four enemy champions, Talon will concentrate more damage to a single target, or maybe two targets with his ultimate. AoE killing power isn't good for a assassin.

TALON COMBO:

Today we see that Talon combo is usually two options: A) AoE massive damage in places like dragon/baron or enemy backline with a silence to help him make his combo or B) concentrate all his burst to a single enemy (apc, adc) and then he probably dies, killing or not the enemy. Except if he build Zhonya, what I have been seeing a little bit (what is weird but works lol)

MY PROPOSAL TALON REWORK COMBO:

Talon combo will be like this: Cutthroat -> Noxian Diplomacy -> Rake -> Shadow Assault -> Shadow Assault. Since he doesn't have silence anymore, the enemy will can use a zhonya to negate the full damage of his ultimate, what will cut his damage a lot. Or use some kind of escape (then champions with escape will be good against Talon, and champions without escape and not Zhonya will not be)

In a teamfight he will be more a single target oriented and will wanna reset his Noxian Diplomacy and Cutthroat cooldowns. Basically he will aim for the enemy adc/apc, try to hit more enemies as possible with his blades and try to kill someone using Noxian Diplomacy to instantly use Noxian Diplomacy in another target.

Well, this is it. Do you like it?