Azir vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Azir
based on 1,439 Azir vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Talon
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Azir vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Azir versus Talon counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Talon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Talon..
Azir often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Talon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Talon
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Who is Better, Azir or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Talon, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a great counter for Talon.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Talon, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Talonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Talon matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is a great counter to Talon. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir to counter Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Azir on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Talon. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Talon build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Talon than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 53.2% when countering Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Talon as Azir, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Azir vs Talon counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.2% winrate overall.
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