Talon·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Talon Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Future's Market and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Profane Hydra. For your last 3 items, you should build Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and finish with Axiom Arc. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 52.4% winrate over 4 001 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Future's Market and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Eyeball Collection with Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Profane Hydra as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Youmuu's Ghostblade as a third item. You want to finish the build with Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and Axiom Arc. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 51.0% win rate across 1 200 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Talon Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Cosmic Insight with Magical Footwear as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Eclipse as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Sundered Sky as third item. The last 3 options are Black Cleaver, Sterak's Gage and Death's Dance. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 51.1% win rate over 425 matches played.

Situational Talon Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Talon build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.