Talk:Talon/@comment-25796537-20151117174011/@comment-5955640-20151117175831

It's not that Talon is a lot like Zed. It's more that he's like most assassins who have blinks and stealth and that his only character is killing people with his arm blade and his knife coat (that is what he's doing right?). You can't rework him for a role as you have to rework for a theme as well because the assassin theme is a very overlapping role.

There's no such thing as a top lane assassin. There are melee carries and AD assassins. The former is bound to be top lane because fighting mages would be a lot harder and the latter has the option of switching a lane because both opponent types are doable.

Talon can already jungle but he's not a very interesting or powerful jungle choice pre level six (post level six should be fine though).

But yeah. They are very different champs but i'll tell you why Talon didn't get any changes and why Zed is getting buffed. Any Zed main will tell you that Zed is now incredibly easy to counter. Mercurial Scimitar is now a sustain item giving marksmen very little excuse on why not to build one, Several more champs have been released that ruin his ult's damage potential, and mages bruisers continue to get Guardian Angel and Zhonyas' Hourglass.

That and the bug fix to Zed's combo was actually a nerf.