Talon with Rakan
How to Synergize Talon and Rakan
based on 2,316 Talon with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Talon Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Talon with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Talon Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Talon in LoL
The Talon Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Talon perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon tries to synergize with Rakan, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may indicate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Rakan 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 with Rakan.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Rakan on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Talon during team fights.
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Is Talon better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top synergy for Talon that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Rakan is a fantastic ally for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, he raises their win rate by 3.1% to 52.1%. This shows that there is an important bond between Talon and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rakan teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Talon players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Talon and Rakan together, you will not be granting your team a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Talon to work well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Talon and Rakan synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Talon included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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