Talk:Talon/@comment-25162540-20141204144806/@comment-15244341-20141209193014

Assassins top usually have these kind of matchups: Irelia maxes E, stuns you for 2 seconds and does half your your health with the following Sheen proc, then proceeds to wait for cooldowns to all in for a kill. Maokai rushes Tabi, then outroams you since there is one lane you can actually go to (mid) and he'll probably have TP.

If you pick Ignite, you get outroamed and have low kill pressure against tankier champs that will rush armor. If you pick TP, you can't fight them, since you just have no sustain compared to popular laners. You need to be mid so you have more roaming targets than mid and whichever jungle you can reach into.