Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-5779359-20130413021816/@comment-8072585-20130430094431

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Of course Talon's E has longer range than flash because... it works nothing like it! You need to target an ENEMY to use it. This is not an escape skill, it is a gap closer/chasing ability. You said yourself that  " whats the use of escaping by increasing chances of death", well guess what, this applies to Talon's E just as much as Zed's ulti. Sure  SOMETIMES there are circumstances in which you could use this to escape, but in general it is not reliable at all.

As for Talon's ult... It kinda works for escaping. but it is his ULT. Which means you can rely on it only if it is up, during the cooldown time you are defenseless. And in any kind of fight you will want to cast this mainly for the damage, which means that after commiting to a teamfight you won't have it up to get out. Oh and one more thing -> his ult's escaping ability can be countered by buying detection...

Now let's look at Zed: W is a proper escape skill, you can cast it wherever you want, jumping over walls and stuff. It is reliable. Also don't forget that you can do tons of tricks with this. You can cast the shadow in one place, lead the enemies in some other direction, and activate the swap after a few seconds - then you gain much more distance than a flash would. Also after swapping you can cast E with your shadow to slow the enemies chasing you (and reduce W cooldown). Ultimate creates another shadow which makes even more possibilities to hop around the place and confuse enemies. And contrary to Talon Zed can actually escape fights after using ulti, especially because E reduces W cooldown so you will have it up fast.

So to sum it up -> yes, a gap-closing jump and short stealth on ultimate are worse, MUCH WORSE than what Zed can do to escape.