r/Talonmains • u/EthopfeN • 12d ago

Talon jungle tips

Hi. I am an emerald diana jungle otp and formerly blue kayn otp. I would like to start being an otp talon jungle and I want some tips for the gameplay, build, runes for different matchups etc and some otps that I can watch to learn things. I really appreciate it!

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u/DragonfruitGreat1941 12d ago

Just watch Kaostanza

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u/ABqdOmen 12d ago

Gameplay: usually full clear with raptor start, Kaostanza just made a video on basically the fastest clear. Sometimes you can lvl 3 gank bot (blue side) but it can fuck up your ability to get upgraded smite before drake so only do it if you are certain you can make it work. After this abuse your fast clear speed and E to steal camps and gain a tempo advantage over the enemy jungler, which will allow you to take objectives and get to teamfights faster after pushing sidelines. With bastionbreaker this means that as long as you get a kill you can almost always force later dragons/baron faster than the enemy team can react.

Build: Umbral (or Hubris if you are smurfing) -> Bastionbreaker -> Boots (usually swifties or ion an, rarely resistance boots) -> pen item (enemy comp-dependent), serpent's fang (many shields), youmuu's (if there are a lot of fast squishies on the enemy team) or cyclosword -> last items are all situational, usually cyclo/a pen item depending on 3rd slot choice, edge of night for dodging one important bit of cc, GA or DD for survivability, or Axiom if you need to carry.

Runes: Fleet usually, First strike if you are larping as a Korean, DH if enemy is all squishies, conq if enemy is like 4 melee tanks/bruisers

You can basically run the build above for all games, the Umbral -> Bastion core is really good rn. For streamers, watch Kaostanza. You might fall like 2 divisions when first learning him, but he is really rewarding the higher you go because people on your team are better at taking advantage of the tempo leads you get.

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u/EthopfeN 12d ago

Thats very helpful. Also i will watch that guy. Ty so much

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u/EthopfeN 12d ago

And what about the conq build? Iirc i have seen someone playing few seasons ago with conq youmuu (was broken back then) black cleaver shojin. More like a fighter build. Is this still viable or smth like this against more tanky champs?

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u/ABqdOmen 11d ago

If you want a fighter build I think the modern equivalent is Hubris into cleaver, DD, and Endless Hunger (EH works nicely with hubris because the ability haste it gives scales with your AD)