Talk:Talon/@comment-2248060-20130728181859/@comment-9533487-20130810001017

Talon vs Zed gives Talon a big advantage after a certain point in lane. Somewhere between level 6-8. Zed's going to be stronger than you before that though, most likely. He won't be building armor (and neither will you of course), so you're free to ignore Brutalizer and skip straight towards either Tiamat or a BF sword (whichever one you want more, personally vs no armor I rush BF for the efficiency/reliability).

Before you get there though, Zed will win any small trades, you would have to go all-in (which he might win anyway if you didn't go in while his W was on CD, but he shouldn't let you do that anyhow so just don't count getting much damage off early, he'll just be given easy poke at you with Q+E if he W's away.)

Pre-16 you should easily kill him in a head-on fight, especially since he should now be behind from you killing him once or more earlier on. After that just don't trade with him straight up, whoever gets to initiate the fight is going to kill the other guy faster.