Talk:Talon/@comment-13727494-20130910070913/@comment-13727494-20130911043517

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You seriously don't know how to play Talon, do you? You don't split push expecting their squishies to show up. One normal way of catching squishies out farming late, is by watching which waves are about to push, then staying slightly behind them. As soon as you see their carries going to take the farm, you ghostblade+ult down the lane and kill them. Happens often and reliably until they catch on. And THEN you can start pushing it down, forcing another objective into a 4v3.

And Talon destroys a Riven in a duel so hard it's not even funny (as long as she isn't super fed). When people pick Riven against me in lane as Talon (mid pick Riven happens sometimes, although it's rare) my lane is pretty much won at champion select. She might as well be a varus in that regard. Either she is forced to build survivability, which means she's useless because it hits her damage hard, or she builds glass cannon early like she's supposed to (since she gets her suvivability through her E), but silence burst stops that from being an issue. Talon is a champion that can literally build completely glass cannon without being hurt by it at all, regardless of enemy comp. You are supposed to do your job before the enemy team can react (yes, that means getting oracles mid-game). Her advantage in lane is that she beats you early on in all-ins, but it's not hard to avoid being caught by her mid. If she tries any shenanigans she pushes so fast it's a free gank for your jungle. If you can bait out her Q to not hit you at level 1, you can also rake and go autotrading with her, as rake+your passive deals more damage than her passive alone.