Katarina vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Katarina
based on 3,195 Katarina vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Talon
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Katarina against Talon counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Talon..
Katarina usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Talon. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Talon
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Who is Better, Katarina or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Talon, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes an ok counter for Talon.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate than Talon, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Talonas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Talon matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Talon. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Talon. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Talon build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Talon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Talon with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Talon as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Katarina vs Talon counters, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Talon as Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.