Talk:Talon/@comment-4221730-20110827193339/@comment-3238314-20110827213908

Because:

building additional hp (in your first 5 items especially) delays your damage and makes you crap.

building additional armor delays even more damage and makes you crap

All meele fighter chars have scaling magic resist so they're not destroyed by magic damage. Getting more, see above.

Basically, He still needs innate survivability so that HE'S NOT SMACKED INTO THE GROUND.

If his current defensive stats don't sound risky you haven't met Akali, whom high elo is currently comparing him to.

The only part where Talon's base stats outclass akali is the hp regen and regen per level, and base hp (by 15). Why is that? because akali has innate survivability with her passive.

Now, if we were to dwelve in it more, akali also has a lower cooldown that talon's stealth shroud, which gives her 50 armor and magic resist, which is quite a reliable escape tool, since it stealths, which adds more survivability.

Akali's best items also include lichbane and rylai, and some might like to throw in abyssal scepter for better damage against squishies.

The power level is about the same on both these champions, but talon can amplify the damage he has by the fair amount, but is limited by his ult regarding alot of damage and stealth, while akali has better survivability and better scaling with items due to her passive, and a more reliable ultimate.

Back to Talon, the thing is you need to be able to destroy a target without it ruining your shit bigtime. He needs to have at least some base survivability so that he can go full glass cannon offence.