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Patch 16.16.21–16.22
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How to play Talon
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Play Talon jungle like a trespass champion: once you buy on time, his best games come from reusing wall routes into the same camp line and lane entrance until one quadrant feels borrowed instead of defended
On ganks, E is the arrival and Q is the receipt—vault in first, let W return and the target’s panic path show you the line, then Q to stick and cash the passive instead of spending it on first touch
Keep one wall unspent: because Assassin's Path locks the terrain you use, good Talon pathing is often deciding which wall you refuse to burn yet so the play stays a kill-and-leave instead of a shutdown trade
If the first invade goes wrong, stop trying to win back the whole map on the next spawn. Go back to a clean camp cycle, keep your health high enough that any wall hop still threatens a real kill, and only re-enter enemy jungle when you know which camp or lane you are cutting toward. The usual mistake is forcing a second blind invade and spending the same wall twice just to prove Talon is still active. If you are behind, your route matters more than your ego: take the fast camps, look for the lane with the longest punish path, and use R more often to break vision or reset the angle than to announce the fight from max range.
Talon's spells Wound champions and large monsters, stacking up to 3 times. When Talon attacks a champion with 3 stacks of Wound, they bleed for heavy damage over time.
Talon stabs the target unit. If they are within melee range, this attack deals critical damage. If they are outside melee range, Talon will leap at his target before stabbing them. Talon refunds some health and cooldown if this ability kills the target.
Talon sends out a volley of daggers that then return back to him, dealing physical damage every time it passes through an enemy. The returning blades deal bonus damage and slow units hit.
Talon vaults over any terrain or structure, up to a max distance. This ability has a low cooldown, but puts the used terrain on a long cooldown.
Talon disperses a ring of blades and becomes Invisible while gaining additional Move Speed. When Talon emerges from Invisibility, the blades converge on his location. Each time the blades move, Shadow Assault deals physical damage to enemies hit by at least one blade.
