Akali vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Akali
based on 2,246 Akali vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Taric
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Akali vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Akali versus Taric matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Taric
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Who is Better, Akali or Taric?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Akali does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Akali into Taricas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akali is a garbage counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Akali
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akali versus Taric build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Taric as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Akali vs Taric LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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