Talon vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Talon
based on 1,220 Talon vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Nilah
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.
Talon vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Talon versus Nilah matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Talon often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Nilah
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Who is Better, Talon or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Talon usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Talon does have a lower win rate than Nilah, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Talon into Nilahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash 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 Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall 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 late stage team fights.
Talon is a bad counter for Nilah. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nilah. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Talon versus Nilah build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Talon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Nilah than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 46.8% battling Nilah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nilah as Talon, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Talon vs Nilah face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nilah as Talon are displayed for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.