Talon with Zed
How to Synergize Talon and Zed
based on 654 Talon with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Talon Zed Synergy Summary
Best Talon vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Zed
Tips for Playing as Talon with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Talon Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Talon in LoL
The Talon Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Talon perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is an ally to Zed, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zed does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played alongside Zed 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 with Zed.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Talon during teamfights.
Synergies between Talon and Zed
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Is Talon better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top ally for Talon that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Zed is a very typical teammate for Talon. By playing on the same side as Talon, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Talon and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Talon players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Talon and Zed together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Talon to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Talon and Zed synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Talon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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