"the unseen blade is the deadliest"

Wut? Assasin means

• Kills squishies very fast
• Limited by cooldowns
• Has mainly single target damage
• Has an escape ability
• Can kill a squishy in a split of a second and get away as fast.

Yes it is, what are you smoking? The issue of pre rework rengar was that if he built full damage he just died instantly after killing his target. An assassin is supposed to get in and get out before the enemy knows what hit them. I mean are assassins supposed to trade kills just to kill the ADC every time?

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Zed wins against Talon during the early game though.

True.

Zed can also kill squishes in one combo late game too. You will do 2.7k damage in 0.3 sec, i will do 2k damage in 0.4 seconds. both cases they are dead. Your point? Zed can still escape and leave a shadow behind to hit the rest of the team with it.

Interestingly, Samurai hype was also lies. But unlike the ninja propaganda, the samurai stuff didn't really take off until after the Samurai were already gone.

Also, so, so much over-hyping of their katanas.

Japan is an interesting place.

They were ALSO, not "JUST" a peasant farmers ofc, in fact, they acted like ones or they had to do something apart from being killers to cover their dirty job? :)

Everyone knows that Samurais were well known emperors guard but in fact, during the era of medieval Japan, apart from Samurais as the royal guard, every single leader of a well known house had his own secret guard known as ninjas. Ninjas were a normal folk, with specific art of combat (Todays Ninjutsu is developed from old Ninja art), they were nothing but a lord's personal guard, mercenaries, payed to kill for their lord and protect their lord as long as they were payed for it. Ninjas were also used to secretly assassinate the leader of the other house, since they could climb the walls, use shadows in their favor and fight Samurai with little to no effort since Samurai was armored warrior > slow and clunky comparing to Ninjas. As the word about Ninjas spreaded across the Japan, even Emperor was worried for his own life because there were a lot of houses that were against the emperor so he payed even more to create his own ninja forces to protect him if other Ninjas get close to him. As well as I know, Emperor was kinda paranoic because of the ninjas so he sent his own ninjas to nearby willage to spy and kill other "enemy" ninjas which resulted in massive slaughter in that willage because Emperor was wrong, those innocent peasants were not ninjas, they were just a normal folk. That storry was literally a BOOM in the japan and since then Ninjas were considered bad, evil, murders, etc, ets so they were basically forbiden even tho they continued to assassinate as the part of their protest.

Read the Zed's quote: Forbidden shadow wins!

So basically Ninjas were mercenaries, not a royal guard, they were both assassins (Zed) and protectors (Shen).

Talon actually uses the blades to scatter them, use light reflection to conceal his movements. And when he reappears he acts sharply back into focus. It's very difficult, yes. But Talon isn't in the League for no reason. He can do stuff that will surprise you.

Ye, i get what you mean. On a single target, talon can do a much faster job but zed can use the shadows to actualy kill the rest of the team too if fed enough. i still remember that one ult i did 1v4 and i tossed W on the other side, effectively boxing them in, i was like, R, W away, E->Q->Botrk active on my target and an AA with the passive, Then W to swap, E again AA, i killed 2 guys like that. Then, the other 2 were between me and the R shadow, R shadow is there for 6 seconds and hitting everyone with my Qs and E i was almos full energy so i Q and hit them bot and i swap to that shadow and take them both out. Damn, i miss those days before that filthy tank meta. Life was so nice back then. You could carry your own games. Anyway, that's the strength of Zed against talon, zed can be powerful even vs more enemies and can help effectively in a teamfight too. Talon can't do that. Also, with zed, even if you fail to kill your target, you can still vanish to nothingness. With talon you just die. And in terms of the matchup of Talon vs Zed, if zed has a pink nearby, he can destroy talon because he is too elusive for talon to keep up, but without one, if talon uses his ult efectively can take out zed twice as fast. The winner will still be the best player but imo, talon has an edge in burst while zed is better at deceiving. Also, zed has a higher outplay potential. A pink ward can make talon's ult stealth completely useless while a Qss isn't enough to keep you alive vs zed in a 1v1. Sometimes, just the triple Q, E and the AA is enough to kill any squishy assassin, mage or ADC, making your ult only usefull as a gapcloser. And the way Zed can jump betwee shadows and hit his spells at the same time can keep him out of talon's range while talon tries to keep up. And if you hit verything and talon has a Qss, you jump back to the one shadow that isn't used yet and finish him off with AA with passive and blade's active. That silence talon had back then was essential to burst zed before he could even react. When they removed that, talon was out of the counterpick list for zed imo.