Talk:Talon/@comment-32779707-20190730180507/@comment-26808509-20190801125635

How does "an AD assassin" and "Kata and Akali" connect exactly? If you want to argue about AD assassins, those aren't really examples. The only AD assassins who don't have mana are Zed and Rengar.

Every other AD assassin does. Qiyana does, Kha'Zix does, Nocturne does and Shaco does. Ressources such as Mana are there to gate champions in what they do, so they can't do it forever and eventually run oom, so they have to retreat. Qiyana for example has pretty low cooldowns on all her spells once she has some CDR. She could constantly dash around people if she didn't have mana to gate her at some point.

Even energy gates champions in what they do. Because unlike mana, their energy might refill quickly, but it runs out just as fast aswell, means they can make one full combo, maybe a little more, but then they run out of energy and have to retreat and wait for it to refill again. It makes them dependant on good executed combos and prevents them from spamming their spells all over the place.

In Talons example his mana is pretty much there to gate his early waveclear. That's pretty much it. He is in the same category as Ekko, if they can't trade with the enemy they can just shove the wave with their waveclear spell and roam. And mana is there to gate that somewhat.