User blog comment:Asylumking/The problem with cutthoat/@comment-24792363-20141021211511

riot likes diversity, and not too many champions have an aa block. that could buff talon's immediate survivability, allowing him to have a slight counter to champions that can deal huge amount of burst on a single on-hit like yasuo's Q or xin Zhao's pow-pow. they could even keep the slow, though I know rito isn't huge on having abilities with lots of different utility. giving him a spellshield on a dash would be too much, but a single auto seems like a decently small early to late game advantage over his lane matchups