Kassadin with Talon
How to Synergize Kassadin and Talon
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Kassadin Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Talon
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Talon
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Talon, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Talon does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Talon on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Talon does a decent job of covering Kassadin during teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect ally for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Talon is a not very good companion for Kassadin. By being on the same team as Kassadin, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Kassadin and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Talon comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Kassadin and Talon together, you probably will not be granting your side much crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Kassadin and Talon synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Talon than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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