League of Legends: How to Play Talon Jungle (Basic Guide)

Talon has become a very popular Champion in the Jungle with many League of Legends players picking him up, some of which are wondering what is the best way to utilise him.

The Champion is a burst Assassin who is capable of moving around the map with ease granting him unrivalled mobility, as no other Champion can catch him.

He has incredible snowball potential with the chance to take over a game with an early lead, however, he doesn’t have any crowd control (CC) so he relies heavily on his damage to carry a game.

The Assassin can become completely useless if he falls behind as he won’t have enough damage to carry out the game.

Summoner’s Rift

Talon Jungle you can run either Ignite and Smite for a more aggressive set of summoners or you can take Flash and Smite.

Runes and Skill Order

There are two sets of Runes that are popular on Talon right now, these two Rune pages have the most success on the Champion currently.

The first of the two is the more known Rune page:

This Rune set will allow Talon to be able to duel more against more buffed out teams which seem to be a more common thing lately helping him scale better into the game

The Assassin’s other Rune page is a newer one seemingly popping up recently with the new Rune First Strike which when entering combat with a champion, you will deal 10% extra damage for three seconds and gain gold based on damage dealt.

The Rune page will look like this

This Rune page focuses on dealing damage and getting paid, First Strike allows Talon to deal more damage in initial combat which is great for an Assassin, as well as gaining gold which helps the Champion grow stronger every time he fights as he can buy more items.

Skill Order

Talon’s skill order will be W (Rake) → Q (Noxian