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.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Talon against Nilah counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Talon typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a bad counter to Nilah.
While Talon does have a much lower win rate compared to Nilah, when facing one another, Talon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Talon into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Talon vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Talon is a garbage counter to Nilah. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Talon against Nilah.
To truly master Talon to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nilah. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Talon versus Nilah build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Prowler's Claw, and Serylda's Grudge. When Talon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Nilah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when playing against Nilah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nilah as Talon, Talon players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Talon vs Nilah battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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