Kayn with Talon
How to Synergize Kayn and Talon
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Kayn Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Talon
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Talon
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Talon helps Kayn perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is an ally to Talon, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Talon does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Talon on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Talon is a not very good teammate for Kayn. By being on the same side as Kayn, he lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Kayn and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Talon allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kayn players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Kayn and Talon together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Kayn and Talon synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Kayn incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Talon with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Kayn and Talon pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Talon with Kayn are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.