Talon

the Blade's Shadow

JunglePatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

53%

Pick rate

11%

Ban rate

49%

Games

732

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
93%52%678
Smite + Ignite
7.4%63%54

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Gustwalker Hatchling
27%55%199
Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
27%48%194
Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward
21%53%152

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Umbral Glaive → Bastionbreaker → Voltaic Cyclosword
32%57%233
Umbral Glaive → Bastionbreaker → Serpent's Fang
9.0%56%66
Umbral Glaive → Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker
6.0%—44

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
37%59%271
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
25%53%186
Mercury's Treads
6.7%—49

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Lord Dominik's Regards
14%61%
Serylda's Grudge
13%64%
Edge of Night
7.8%58%
Serpent's Fang
4.8%—

Fifth item

Edge of Night
4.6%—
Serpent's Fang
2.2%—
Death's Dance
2.0%—
Lord Dominik's Regards
2.0%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Rake → Noxian Diplomacy → Assassin's Path

88%55%641

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q						Q		Q		Q	Q
W	W			W	W		W		W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 7,138 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.