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Talon Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 635 gamesUpdated

47.2%win rate0.0%pick3.1%ban

Who counters Talon

How to build Talon

Plated Steelcaps→Eclipse→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Eclipse → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance

52.5% win rate 9% of games 40 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate HunterInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear19% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite87%
Skills
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Noxian Diplomacy
2891012
Rake
13457
Assassin's Path
1314151718
Shadow Assault
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Talon build →
47.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.2% over 1,439 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.2% over 635 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.0%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
3.1%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
39.6%under 22 min
48.0%over 32 min

Talon Top gets better as the elo rises. 47.2% across Silver and above, and 50.0% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Talon champion portraitT TalonvsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
8 / 10 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Voltaic Cyclosword→Youmuu's Ghostblade→Edge of Night

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQWEWRWQWQRQQEER
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Talon champion portraitT TalonvsAnivia champion portraitT Anivia
13 / 7 / 4

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Voltaic Cyclosword→Youmuu's Ghostblade→Edge of Night→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQEERE
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Talon champion portraitT TalonvsZaahen champion portraitT Zaahen
4 / 8 / 7

Build

Boots|Eclipse→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQEE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 38.8% win rate · 19% of games · 67 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 53.5% win rate · 12% of games · 43 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite87%47.4%561 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport9%49.1%55 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps27%Ionian Boots of Lucidity25%Boots of Swiftness17%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 43.5% win rate

Talon build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Talon Top is at 634 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Talon →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 634 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
26% · 44.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
24% · 48.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
17% · 57.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
15% · 56.8% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
7% · 38.3% win rate
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Talon against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Talon's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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