User blog comment:Darksusanoo/(Champion Rework) Talon, the Blade's Shadow/@comment-24036535-20150327211600

I mained Talon up until a few days ago when I picked up Diana, and have always found one major problem with his kit, frontloaded, kill/be killed, or both playstyle, I enjoyed it, very high risk, but good rewards (I always loved instabursting several enemy champions), but I also always thought he needed a rework, and I think this is nearly perfect.

Passive: I absolutely LOVE the idea, I used to simply argue for the whole "Kill/assist puts Talon into stealth for 1 second", but I think with his new E, this is great. I especially love the change from him being a pure AD caster, to a more hybrid playstyle, though I'd still like for his Q and Passive to NOT interact with crit.

Q: Personally, I think his Q was fine as it was, except of course for the bleed, which didn't do much, I think this makes it more of his finisher, EWRQ combo, with the Q excecute+Passive proc dealing TONS of damage, however... I find an excecute on an assassin to be simply unhealthy in nature, maybe reduce it to 1% increased damage for every 2% missing health? Otherwise this'll be a bit overloaded in my opinion.

W: Damage reduction? Eh, justified in his passive change.

E: This is where I find you deviate from the theme I thought Talon had, I didn't imagine him having strings on his daggers, more, idk, magic I guess to bring them back? Boomerang daggers? I feel as if the string idea doesn't actually fit with Talon's theme very well, though I do like the idea. On another note, I think you could change it from a skill shot, back to a targetted ability, at the cost of some of it's CD, otherwise the ability will become far too unreliable, and dropping the tether duration a little bit, to between .5 and .8 seconds, again, otherwise, I believe it's too unreliable, of course letting an enemy move out of the range is fine, but one full second allows the enemy team to position to butcher you, and that one second can easily lose you a fight.

R: Same deal as W, reduced damage, compensated for in his passive.