Rek'Sai with Talon
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Talon
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Rek'Sai Talon Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Talon
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Talon
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai 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 worsening shows that Talon helps Rek'Sai perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is paired with Talon, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Talon supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played alongside Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Talon on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Talon does a decent job of covering Rek'Sai during team fights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Talon
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Talon?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rek'Sai that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Talon is a very typical ally for Rek'Sai. By being on the same side as Rek'Sai, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rek'Sai and Talon that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players must be cautious when finding Talon allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Rek'Sai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Rek'Sai and Talon together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Rek'Sai and Talon synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Talon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Talon with Rek'Sai are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.