Talk:Talon/@comment-15031918-20150211003426/@comment-24741259-20150307174959

Guys, the attack speed on Ghostblade can be good for clean up when either their damage sources or CC sources are dead (then you can just straight up auto attack and kill whatever is left, since they won't have the damage or CC to stop you), but that is just a nice bonus on talon. You do it so you can get to your targets better or escape better, since you can pp it during your ult. A well fed talon only needs half his ult to kill a target, so ult, Ghostblade, e allows you to cover more distance than any squishy can run/escape from. The flat 20 armor pen is also really good, as your max pen then because 51.75+30 flat from items. And since armor is stronger the less there is of it (the armor damage reduction formula is 100/(100+armor)), that flat pen helps knock out the strongest section of their armor and more than pays for itself.

As for IE, it isn't a bad last item if you are ahead, but Bloodthirster and the shield it gives is a little safer. Or just an outright defensive item. Depends on the game and how much you care about winning. Personally, the second I get ahead, the IE comes out for hilarious 1700 damage crits.

And the problem with building talon like yi, tryn, or fiora is he doesn't have a good kit to stay in the fight like they do (Yi: his q can dodge cc, immune to slows, and damage reduction w, Tryn: Ult+heal, Fiora: W, Ult, speed up) and all the other melee carries have something that increases their ability to auto attack well (Yi's passive, e, and ult, Tryn's Crit chance and AD increase, Fiora's AD increase and AS increase). So building him that way leads to a dead talon usually. You need to explode a target and run away really fast. Your build also won't hit as much AD as talon needs to properly blow up late game targets and lacks armor pen (his strongest stat), so his abilities won't do as much damage as they need to.

All that being said I'm sure Crit chance talon is abslutely hilarious and pretty fun, just not particularly good. But as long as you aren't trying in ranked, go for it and have a blast. If you put a mallet on him, or keep the red buff on, your passive makes it so you crit for 275% rather than 250%.