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.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
The stats provided here show some important Talon against Shyvana matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Talon often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually wins when facing off against Shyvana, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Talon makes a good counter to Shyvana.
While Talon does have a higher win rate than Shyvana, when facing one another, Talon also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Talon into Shyvanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Shyvana matchups, Talon is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Talon is a decent counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Shyvana.
To truly master Talon in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often picks up more CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Talon versus Shyvana build consist of Eclipse, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Serylda's Grudge. When Talon bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Shyvana than with most other common builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Shyvana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Shyvana as Talon, Talon players 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Talon vs Shyvana fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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