Talon is Underrated in Lower ELO's

ShwaShwaBaggins·11/13/2015, 10:07:33 PM·1 votes·529 views

Talon Talon is perhaps one of the most powerful yet underrated champions in the game. With a 0.8% play-rate, it seems everyone assumes he is trash-tier. This is because he isn't played by professional teams, due to his easy bad positioning and lack of escapes compared to other assassins. In higher ELO's this becomes a problem as it is hard to pick out an individual fight. However, enemy positioning mistakes are very common in lower ELO's, so getting fed on this beast is almost a breeze. Even if you don't get fed, your 100-0's will come back in the late game. As evidence, take my late game build (don't get mad at me if it isn't the best, I just like it): item 3074 item 3142 item 3031 item 3087 item 3071 item 3117 With this build, along with a 25% damage increase from his passive and masteries on CC'ed targets, and a 50% AD bleed from new masteries, your E-AA-Q combo will deal a total of 1725 (no crits)-2725 (2 crits) mostly physical damage. If you want, you could get item 3036 instead of item 3071 to do more damage against tanks.

A 25% chance of doing 2725 damage in a VERY short amount of time is more than feasible for taking out high-priority targets, and escaping with R if need be. You may argue "but this is in the late game", but in lower ELO's you will find yourself in a lot of late games. With this amount of power, it upsets me to see Talon Talon played far less than other assassins.

7 Comments

junglerboy1611/13/2015, 10:29:11 PM1 votes

Uh, he's not underrated in low elo, I see him spammed almost constantly, because it is so easy for a talon to snowball in low elo.

He's a noob stomper just like Kat or Master Yi, and it shows (believe me, seeing repeat games with 30 kill Talons is nothing new).

4ManVotedAgainst11/13/2015, 10:57:06 PM1 votes

Talon is just under-rated period which is why I rarely let anybody else in Solo-Queue lane against him so I'd rather deal with him myself. Low-Elo is considered anything below High-Platinum these days though...