Talon vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Talon
based on 2,733 Talon vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Talon vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Talon against Garen matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Garen
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Who is Better, Talon or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Garen, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Talon makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Talon does have a higher win rate than Garen, when facing one another, Talon also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Garenas 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 only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Garen matchups, Talon is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Talon is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Talon versus Garen build consist of Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Talon, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Talon vs Garen battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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