Talon vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Talon
based on 1,210 Talon vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Talon vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Talon in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Talon vs. Gangplank counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Talon or Gangplank?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when taking on Gangplank, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Talon makes an ok counter for Gangplank.
While Talon does have a higher winrate than Gangplank, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Gangplankas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Talon also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs Gangplank matchups, Talon is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Talon is a decent counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Talon against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Talon versus Gangplank build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Talon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Gangplank as Talon, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Talon vs Gangplank counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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