Talon winrate drops below 50% In Years ! Winrate is 45% in diamond +

This champion is almost unviable Diamond +

TLDR:

A champion who capitalize on enemy mistakes, has good reliable burst, but no follow up damage, does not really fit into any team comp, but not necessary terrible. Recent chanegs and nerfs makes his kit much more avoidable. This champ needs some buff

Some possible reasons:

-Last whisper changes means talon cannot kill adcs who build any sort of armor, simply because yomus 20 armor pen and black cleaver is not efficient enough. For example, ezreal players who go iceborn build, not to mention he has a free flash already.

-Zilean becoming more popular (2.77% (patch 6.12) from 2.3% (patch 6.8)) and seeing increased winrate and buffs.

-Popular jungler Kindred completely makes talon useless in team fights. Since Talon is about bursting a target, Kindred's AOE ult can easily protect his entire team

-High elo players easily avoid him since he has one and only gap closer.

-Although it is the immobile mid lane mage meta, bruisers are becoming significantly more popular, (top lane ekko, fizz) especially after triforce changes (Irelia, hecarim). Becomes unkillable, and kills talon in seconds, who has a 100 sec cd escape now.

-Swain, a good counter to talon, has a 7 fold increase in play rate.

-Introduction of new champion aurelion sol, who is sort of tanky, and therefore counters talon.

-Malzahar buffs, he has now a 55% winrate plat and above, and he directly counters talon due to his kit.