Talon vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Talon
based on 1,553 Talon vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Talon vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Talon vs. K'Sante matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between these two champs. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Talon or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually wins when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Talon does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Talon into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs K'Sante matchups, Talon is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Talon is a decent counter for K'Sante. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Talon versus K'Sante build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting K'Sante than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 52.0% battling K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating K'Sante as Talon, Talon players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Talon vs K'Sante battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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