Gwen with Talon
How to Synergize Gwen and Talon
based on 2,311 Gwen with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Talon Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Talon
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Talon
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Understand How Talon Will Play
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.
Gwen Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Gwen perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen plays on the same team as Talon, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Talon helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Talon on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Gwen during teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Talon
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Talon?
There is no one best synergy for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Talon is a very typical ally for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Gwen and Talon that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means you should be careful when lining up Talon allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gwen and Talon together, you may not be granting your other teammates much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gwen to synergize with Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Gwen and Talon synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Talon than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Talon with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Gwen players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gwen and Talon pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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