Who to play with Talon — best team synergies

You come in over a wall with Assassin's Path (E) and end up alone in the middle of them: Stand United (R) is the only way anyone reaches you there, and it arrives with a shield. Shadow Dash (E) taunts whoever cut your combo short.

The Hextech Ultimatum (R) locks a carry inside a zone she can't leave and shoves away anyone who would peel for her: the isolated, unshielded target Blade's End (P) is built to detonate on. You walk in, three stacks, one auto-attack.

Your page says armor stackers give you trouble: Brittle from Bellows Breath (W) adds max-health magic damage and stretches the Searing Charge (E) knock-up by 30%, which is exactly the time you need to detonate Blade's End (P).

Vanguard's Edge (R) splits the fight in half with a wall of blades: the carry you want stays on your side of it, with no front line covering her. Flawless Duet (E) stuns her for exactly as long as Rake (W) into Noxian Diplomacy (Q) takes.

All Out (R) rips a carry out of their front line and roots her: motionless and alone is the only state in which your burst actually kills. Before level 5, the third Ntofo Strikes (Q) is a pulling shockwave with a stun that lands your gank.

Before committing to a flank you need to know where all five of them are: Destiny (R) tells you without making you leave the jungle. Then Pick a Card (W) on the Gold Card holds your target for 1.25 seconds, the full length of your combo.

Hero's Entrance (R) announces itself with a 2.5-second circle on the ground and everyone watches it: that is the free flank you come in from. And when it lands it takes away whoever broke your combo, which is the only way you ever die.

Your combo is not instant: Rake (W) has to travel back, then the Q lands, then the auto. Ring of Frost (W) and Frozen Tomb (R) hold the same target still long enough for you to reach the end of it, instead of detonating on someone already gone.

Sleepy Trouble Bubble (E) puts whoever drifted from the group to sleep from range: you get the pick without hunting for the right wall for Assassin's Path (E). And her magic damage opens up the tanks your all-physical burst can't get through.

A jungle assassin and a roaming mid play the same game: Charm (E) locks the target and pulls it out of position, and Spirit Rush (R) brings her into the pick with you. Against one physical and one magic burst, no single resistance item covers them.

A level-three gank with no slow does not happen, and yours only comes from Rake (W): Frost Shot (P) puts a slow on every single hit, so all you do is walk out of the bush. Hawkshot (E) meanwhile checks your flank before you move at all.

The Rake (W) dagger fan clips their carry from outside melee range, and that is all it takes: Deadly Flourish (W) turns that damage into a real root. And every takedown plants a Captive Audience (E) trap: free vision right where the next pick happens.

Your level-three gank runs on one slow, the one from Rake (W): Make It Rain (E) lays another one across the whole area, and the Double Up (Q) bounce reaches even someone hiding behind the wave. Bot becomes the lane you keep coming back to.

If she picks you as her Oathsworn, Fate's Call (R) becomes the plan B your kit does not have: it drags you back the moment the combo failed and you would be standing in melee. It runs on her timing, though, and she usually bonds her support.

You are the one champion a single stun deletes twice over: it breaks your combo and it also interrupts the Shadow Assault (R) stealth. Morgana puts Black Shield (E) on you before the engage, and that stun simply never arrives at all.

Death Sentence (Q) rips a body away from their team and The Box (R) shuts out whoever would come get it: the isolated target, served without you having to find the angle. And if the combo does not close, Dark Passage (W) pulls you out.

Curse of the Black Mist (E) lets you walk in camouflaged: you reach their carry without depending on the right wall for Assassin's Path (E) and without lighting up a ward. Then Dawning Shadow (R) reaches you with a shield from any distance.

Two Time Bomb (Q) casts on the same target detonate the first one: a 1.2-second stun from range, so your gank starts already locked down. And Chronoshift (R) rewinds you when the all-in did not kill and you have nothing left.

Your kit produces not one instant of crowd control: Zenith Blade (E) roots their carry and carries Leona onto her, then Solar Flare (R) pins her there. All that's left for you is picking when Rake (W) and Noxian Diplomacy (Q) land together.

You roam together and you vanish together: Ghostwater Dive (W) hides him while you come in over a wall, and Death From Below (R) executes under roughly 250 health, which is about where Blade's End (P) leaves the target. A first-fifteen-minutes duo, though.