@Riot, Can we get some insight on Talon?

LelouchtheGreat·1/14/2015, 1:09:44 PM·1 votes·642 views

Im just wondering if anyone can comment on Talon's current state. Rioters mentioned looking into his kit more after the removal of the silence, and possibly compensating him more on his E, but since then nothing has been said about him since. Are there still any plans to give him some compensation? The main issue I find is that anyone who buys zhonyas shuts talon down completely, because he has to commit fully to the fight and cant back out if things go poorly like Zed, Fizz, Leblanc. He is also heavily gated by mana. Could anyone please just take a minute to post if there are any plans to look at him soon?

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forist1/14/2015, 2:00:40 PM1 votes

Here, this is the only thing that has been said about talon by anyone associated with riot since October (at least that I am aware of):

You gonna give talon some form of cc (a real cc, not a shitty quarter second slow) on his cut-throat (e) or maybe a decent form of utility so he can keep up with all the incredibly good kits other assassins have? Maybe give him a real passive? Or a skin?

-me

I think in the future we will shy away from hard CC on Talon because as we have seen in the past, the combination of hard CC and his burst damage led to very frustrating and non interactive situations where he can 100-0 an enemy while they are unable to react.

On the topic of how we would want to improve talon (no immediate plans yet just talking about direction), his current pattern of burst an enemy or be useless is pretty binary and honestly a bit boring. I would want to buff up some of his utility tools like his stealth or even give him new utility tools that are not hard CC (like dodge, spell shield or something like that) to allow him to not feel useless when he can't immediately burst kill his enemies.

-RiotScruffy

So, nothing really going on. They haven't done anything in the past 4 months and don't really have anything planned yet. I think working on talon would probably be a higher priority if more people played him, but that just isn't the case. I'm posting this, because sadly this is probably all you're gonna get. They never really respond to these kinds of threads. D:

LordKentravyon1/14/2015, 7:02:59 PM1 votes

I'm just annoyed that as SOON as people played him he got nerfed

and then its right back the go to assassins, zed,fizz,akali... who are always left untouched

and I never really found him much of a problem, yes he hurt no shit, but overall he was a lot easier to manage then the 3 above (and that was before they removed silence)