Talon vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Talon
based on 2,603 Talon vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Talon vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Talon versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Talon typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Rakan
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Who is Better, Talon or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Talon does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Talon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Talon into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Talon also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Talon against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon typically accumulates much more CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Talon versus Rakan build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Talon, you should take 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 players picked for Talon vs Rakan LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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