Talon vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Talon
based on 2,381 Talon vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Talon vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Talon vs. Malzahar matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Talon or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually fairs equally well when taking on Malzahar, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Talon makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Talon does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Talon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs Malzahar matchups, Talon is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Talon is a decent counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Talon against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to 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 often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Talon versus Malzahar build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Talon used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Malzahar as Talon, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Talon vs Malzahar counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Talon are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.