Talon

the Blade's Shadow

MidPatch 16.20Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

54%

Pick rate

10%

Ban rate

42%

Games

510

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
98%54%500

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
40%52%205
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
40%57%204
Long Sword, Refillable Potion
8.0%—41

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Umbral Glaive → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
4.5%—23
Umbral Glaive → Bastionbreaker → Voltaic Cyclosword
3.7%—19

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
36%55%185
Boots of Swiftness
31%58%156
Mercury's Treads
16%54%82

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Edge of Night
7.8%—
Serylda's Grudge
7.3%—
Lord Dominik's Regards
6.9%—
Serpent's Fang
3.9%—

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%55%448

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 54,302 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.20 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.