Talk:Talon/@comment-26972537-20150909144300/@comment-24036535-20150909211439

Talon's most notable stength is his raw upfront burst, his ability to deal most of his damage within the space of a second, and the ability to have the best AoE burst, and arguably best teamfighting, of any AD assassin. His less notable strengths include amazing waveclear, low CD on ult, powerful roams, and a general ability to apply a ton of pressure on the map.

Talon's weaknesses however limit him severly. Unless he's ahead, Talon will often die killing his target in teamfights, as he can only delete a single target unless very far ahead, allowing the others to make use of his 6+ seconds of uselessness after killing someone to kill him in return. Talon is also one of the least mobile assassins in general, with a very inflexible blink, and an ult that is generally reserved for life or death scenarios, be it his life, or the enemy carries' life.

Talon is the fallback assassin, because no matter what he's also going to be able to do his job. Because his kit is so damage oriented, with so little utility and mobility like Zed's or Kha'zix' means the main changes they can do to Talon are number changes, but Riot needs to keep him powerful enough to do his job, meaning Talon is pretty much always going to be powerful enough to kill someone, no matter what happens. Otherwise, his speed deletion in bursty fights is helpful, I heard a friend say he's one of the more popular assassins right now is because  he essentially makes any fight a 4v5 by deleting the enemy carry the second the fight begins. He is actually picked fairly frequently, at least for assassins, the problem isn't Talon not being picked much, it's that assassins aren't very popular right now.