Talk:Talon/@comment-24036535-20140522220944/@comment-1330314-20140523220604

I think the start of the rework was the point at which Riot realized how obnoxious it is to have a silence on a hyper-bursty assassin.

I don't think being able to blow people up is itself a bad thing. can delete even tanks with enough items, and after all the nerfs can do the same without being too obnoxious. The problem with champions like is that his kit also prevents most interactivity on the side of his victims while he bursts them down. In addition to the silence, which is enough to enable his W+Q, his ult deals a ton of burst and stealths him (plus it increases his movement speed), so there's nothing his opponents can really do to retaliate while he does that besides pop a red trinket or a pink ward.

I also think Talon's kit is currently all over the place. His passive only applies to him in a very specific situation (autoattacking a target he just damaged with ), his Q is a DoT that does very little on a full burst-oriented kit, his E has the aforementioned silence problems, and his biggest source of burst is also his escape. He needs to be reworked in a way that preserves his unique qualities (high burst, focus on stealth) while allowing for more interaction with his targets.