Talon

the Blade's Shadow

MidPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

10%

Ban rate

43%

Games

340

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
98%50%332

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
39%50%131
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
27%54%91
Long Sword, Refillable Potion
25%53%86

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Youmuu's Ghostblade → Umbral Glaive → Bastionbreaker
5.3%—18

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
39%50%131
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
22%51%75
Mercury's Treads
15%57%51

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Lord Dominik's Regards
7.4%—
Edge of Night
5.0%—
Serylda's Grudge
4.4%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

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

88%52%300

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 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 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.