Leona with Talon
How to Synergize Leona and Talon
based on 2,555 Leona with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Talon
Tips for Playing as Leona with Talon
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Talon helps Leona perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is paired with Talon, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Talon helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Talon on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Talon does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Talon is a below average ally for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Leona and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Talon allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Leona and Talon together, you may not be granting your team much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Leona to synergize with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Leona and Talon synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Talon with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Leona and Talon pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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