Talon vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Talon
based on 2,029 Talon vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Talon vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Talon in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Talon versus Illaoi matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Talon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Talon or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Talon usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 44.2% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Talon does have a much lower winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Talon into Illaoias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Talon is a terribly counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Talon versus Illaoi build include Prowler's Claw, Ravenous Hydra, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Talon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 44.2% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Illaoi as Talon, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Talon vs Illaoi face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.2% win rate overall.
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