Talon vs Naafiri Counter Pick

Two physical-damage assassins at 125 range, with difficulty ratings at opposite ends: Talon 7, Naafiri 2. The 264 games on patch 16.13.1 read 58.7% for Talon, computed as Easy, which is the less intuitive result given how forgiving her kit is to execute and how much of it is automated by her packmates.

Base statistics explain most of it. Talon opens with 68 attack damage to her 55 and 658 health to her 610, and he keeps both leads at level 18 with 2,511 health to 2,395 and 109.9 armour to 99.4. We Are More spawns packmates that attack whatever she attacks, which spreads her damage across a duel, while Blade’s End concentrates his: three stacks of Wound from spells, then an attack, then heavy bleed. Against 28 base armour that sequence resolves fast. Her outs are Eviscerate, a dash that recalls and fully heals the pack, and The Call of the Pack, which makes her briefly untargetable, so timing the third Wound stack around those two windows is the real skill test. Darkin Daggers apply bleed and hit harder against a target already bleeding, so her damage rewards a second commitment rather than one opening. Hounds’ Pursuit can be recast after a takedown, which makes retreating at low health unreliable even with 340 move speed against his 335. Her kit is detailed on the Naafiri champion page.