Talon with Kalista
How to Synergize Talon and Kalista
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Talon Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Talon with Kalista
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.
Advice to Understand How Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Talon Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Talon in LoL
The Talon Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Talon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kalista helps Talon perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is paired with Kalista, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kalista does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Kalista on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Talon in team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Kalista
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Is Talon better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no ideal synergy for Talon that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kalista is a below average teammate for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Talon and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kalista teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Talon and Kalista together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Talon to synergize with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Talon and Kalista synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Talon combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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