Talon vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Talon
based on 1,881 Talon vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Zac
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 Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Talon vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Talon vs. Zac counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zac. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Talon typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Zac
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Who is Better, Talon or Zac?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Talon usually loses when playing against Zac, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Talon makes a poor counter to Zac.
While Talon does have a lower winrate than Zac, when facing one another, Talon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Talon into Zacas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Talon vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Talon is a somewhat poor counter to Zac. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Zac during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often accumulates more CS as Zac. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Talon versus Zac build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Zac than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Zac with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zac 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 builds that we analyzed for Talon vs Zac counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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