Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
The stats shown here highlight some important Ahri versus Talon matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Talon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Talon..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Talon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Talon, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter for Talon.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Talon, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Talon.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Talon matchups, Talon is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Talon. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Talon.
To truly master Ahri to counter Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Talon. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ahri versus Talon build consist of Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Talon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Talon with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Talon as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ahri vs Talon counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Talon as Ahri are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.