Illaoi vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Illaoi
based on 1,382 Illaoi vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Talon
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Illaoi against Talon counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Talon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Talon..
Illaoi usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Talon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Talon
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Talon?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Talon, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a good counter for Talon.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Talon, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Talon.
Additionally, Illaoi also has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Talon matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Illaoi is a good counter for Talon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Talon. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Talon build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Talon than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Talon with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Talon as Illaoi, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Illaoi vs Talon battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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