User blog comment:Asylumking/The problem with cutthoat/@comment-4296199-20141016054044/@comment-25115166-20141017164004

That's the point though. Now there's a clear gap between a good and a mediocre Talon. At a certain point you'll find Talon can 100-0 a squishy without his silence, because it takes a really short amount of time for him to use his combo. Any decent Talon player at Plat ELO can W-E-AA-Q and maybe R in the blink of an eye.

Let's use a matchup Talon used to stomp before : Ahri.

With the silence, it was easy as hell to combo her and kill her. Now, she can charm you, Q and then R to disengage. What does that mean? That mean an unexperienced player will dash her and get killed/lose a lot of health. But at higher ELOs? Just bait her Charm and watch her Ult's cooldown, and you're set.

Basically, the combo hasn't even changed at all. You just need to pay attention to CC, as every Assassin should.

As an answer to your question : High Risk, High Reward. The E already comes with a damage Amp, not even taking in account the bonus damage from Talon's passive (E slows, and even then the W's slow will still be in effect) so, probably no damage reduction in sight.