Shaco with Talon
How to Synergize Shaco and Talon
based on 2,192 Shaco with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Talon Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Talon
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Talon
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco 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 Shaco perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Talon, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Talon supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Talon on the same side, 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 Shaco plays with Talon on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Talon does a decent job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Talon
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Talon?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Talon is a not very good teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same team as Shaco, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Shaco and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when arranging Talon comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Shaco players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Shaco and Talon together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Talon ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Shaco in order to synergize with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Shaco and Talon synergy build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Talon than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Talon with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Shaco players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Talon with Shaco are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.