Talon with Zilean
How to Synergize Talon and Zilean
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Talon Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Talon with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Talon Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Talon in LoL
The Talon Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Talon perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is an ally to Zilean, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Zilean 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 Zilean.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Talon during teamfights.
Synergies between Talon and Zilean
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Is Talon better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Talon that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Zilean is a very typical companion for Talon. By playing on the same side as Talon, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Talon and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means Talon players don't need to be very careful when finding Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Talon and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other allies enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Talon and Zilean synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Talon included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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