Should You Main Talon? Tier A
Yes. Talon is tier A for maining. 10 Challenger and 24 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 465,248 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Talon scores 7.12 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 7.12 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 10 Challenger · 24 Grandmaster · 227 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 465,248 games played worldwide · 5.05% pick rate · 2.64% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Talon, similar situation in the jungle and mid. Very, very strong one-trick champion. Very, very strong main champion.
So, I would highly consider like this is 10 Talon challenger mains. You probably know of a few content creators as well on Talon. I think cows as well.
Cowstanza in U EU West and couple of Talon mains in NA. This champion's always been very strong, very popular. So 10 challenger mains and 24 Grandmaster mains with a 5% pick rate and a 2% ban rate.
So you're going to get this champion often and there's going to be good role models to follow on this champion. So that also counts for a little bit as well. Trick is going to be one of those champions.
Belongs all the way up in the great to main. Trick's always been very solid as a support option.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.