THE BEST TALONFLAME BUILD GUIDE - POKEMON UNITE

Razor Claw :
Razor is core of course due to Talon’s bursty nature, and following up a Fly/BB with a fat Razor proc thanks to his big speedster attack stat plays right into that.

Attack Weight :
Weight is an easy output increase thanks to Talon’s ease of scoring and backcapping, getting stacks is generally of no issue for him. With your Fly+FC and BB/AA combos having super high total ratios, it just fits.

Float Stone /Energy Amp :
Float is swappable for Amp to give your ult some oneshot thresholds on squishies and able to make plays more often. Talonflame can also trigger the out-of-combat condition for Float to turn on quite easily with Fly, so getting to your desired landing target or escaping is much easier.

Charging Charm :
Similar to Razor Claw’s use case, adding a fat amount of burst on your engages is always of high value for an assassin, and the extra movespeed is always welcome to Talon. This can be a great alternative option to Amp as well if you want to focus on your early game gank pressure and try to play for some snowball chances pre-9 before Amp would really contribute.

⭐ ⇮ fly ⇮⭐
MOVESET 1:
Talon’s high movespeed with passive and high base dmg at low levels makes him a very solid invade choice, and is a nightmare for slow-clearing junglers (SHIFU/GLACEON).

If you do choose to go for invade tactic, you wanna do a Float/Razor/Focus setup. Float + passive gets you to the other side in time to contest, and the high flat atk stat of Float and Razor proc allow you to last-hit those camps much easier. Focus is there in the event of the jungler getting super pissy at this lil parakeet stealing his food and a scrap breaking out, giving you some dueling power.

Fly Talon has excellent mobility, constant map pressure, and good scoring ability. While Brave Bird/AA set is more geared towards assassinating priority targets with the burst combo, Fly’s ability to ignore terrain gives it immensely more flexibility with positioning, as well as having the freedom to land the dmg the exact moment when YOU want making it more reliable for smiting objectives.
You become untargetable the *instant* you press Fly, rather than the 7 years of wind-up time it takes BB to cast, so also much safer.
Fly’s cd is reduced when it lands on an enemy player so try to not be a griefer and miss your moves, k?

MOVESET 2:
Hitting with Brave Bird puts a marker on your target where if you auto them when marked, it resets aerial ace cd. So you do the combo of BB > AA > auto > AA > auto and delete someone. The combined 670% ratio of that combo warrants some stacking with Weight to complement its oneshot potential, as that is its niche and really the only reason to run this set to begin with.

It’s a really scary ganking tool because the range of BB is like 50 miles so you can do it from completely out of vision…the problem is the long wind-up makes it telegraphed and pretty reactable. The recent nerfs to its target radius didn’t help.

Just play Fly.

Favourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined TALONFLAME is strong against. TALONFLAME will generally be able to shut down these opponents playstyle's or have the advantage in a one on one fight.

FALINKS

INTELEON

GLACEON

GARDEVOIR

DECIDUEYE

Unfavourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined TALONFLAME is weak against. These Pokémon will have the upper hand in a fight or be able to exploit TALONFLAME's weaknesses.

TREVENANT

UMBREON

CRAMORANT

SCIZOR

BUZZWOLE