Talon vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Talon
based on 2,578 Talon vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Bard
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Talon vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Talon vs. Bard matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Bard
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Who is Better, Talon or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Talon does have a much lower winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Talon also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Talon into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Talon is a terribly counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Talon against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon typically picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Talon versus Bard build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 45.5% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Talon, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Talon vs Bard counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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