Main rune set

Greater Mark of Desolation Greater Mark of Desolation Our Noxian friend here deals all physical damage so we use Armor penetration to help up his damage. Greater Seal of Resilience He is rather squishy so we give him 6 of these some armour(8,46).

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Greater Glyph of Focus Gets your ult up quicker and let's you use all of your abilities more often. Greater Quintessence of Desolation Greater Quintessence of Desolation More armour penetration is always good for your lategame

Other runes worth considering

Greater Mark of Strength Want better early game damage? these are your runes. Greater Seal of Clarity We give our Noxian friend these so he won't be starving for mana as much. Even though he starts out with a whopping 10 MP5 if you go all Armour seals he will be quite mana starved late game if you keep spamming his spells. Instead of the 3 I recommend you can go the full 9 so you barely will have any mana problems throughout the game.

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Greater Glyph of Warding If you have some troubles with mages these runes can be nice to have, also quite cheap. Greater Quintessence of Strength For more early game damage, these can be mixed with Desolation marks to provide a nice balance between early and lategame performance.

• Combine with or red buff for good results.
  
  
  
  

  Noxian Diplomacy

  This ability scales very well into lategame, the bleed effect lasts 6 seconds dealing damage each second with a 0.2 AD ratio totalling a 1.2 Bonus AD ratio for the total damage. Note that with this ability active you can still crit which is amazing. and this ability also works on turrets.
  
  
  Tips and tricks:
  • Use right after your autoattack hits to quickly strike again for a good burst of damage.
    
    
  • the bleed effect will also reveal enemies if they manage to escape or stealth.
  
  
  

  Rake

  This is your farming/harassing tool. the slow is a nice added bonus which works with Mercy. It also hits twice totalling a 1.2 Bonus AD ratio
  
  
  Tips and tricks:
  • Rake counts as two spells the blades when they fly away from you and when they fly back to you this can be used to break spell shields for a sacrifice of half the damage, the slow will still be applied on the way back.
    
    
  • The slow on Rake does not stack when the enemy gets hit a second time it will just reapply the slow.
  
  
  Cutthroat

  Cutthroat

  Great for closing distances the silence/damage amplification is an added plus to stop of their mages for a short while. sadly it doesn't work on anything but enemies.
  
  
  Tips and tricks:
  • This can be used to jump over a wall to an enemy. this can be used to surprise them. and give you an edge.
    
    
  • You will automatically try to autoattack right after blinking to them, you can use right after that autoattack to deal more damage. can also be activated before you blink to them thereby applying Noxian diplomacy right after blinking to them.
  
  
  

  Shadow Assault

  This is what defines Talon with a massive 0.9 AD ratio that applies twice totaling a 1.8 AD ratio with the added bonus of stealth and a movement speed bonus. Shadow assault got nerfed recently by adding 15 seconds of cooldown to each level. with 40% cooldown reduction your ult cooldown is now 33seconds instead of 24 which is a shame but 33 seconds is still an acceptable time
  
  Tips and tricks:
  • Using Cutthroat while Shadow Assault is active will blink you to your target and then recall the blades. the blades will hit them again on the way back to you because you land behind them with cutthroat.
    
    
  • Shadow Assault combined with can make you quite the quick one. this can be used to chase or run away just be sure to use ghost before you pop your ult.