Alistar vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Alistar
based on 700 Alistar vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Taric
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Alistar vs. Taric counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric..
Alistar often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Taric
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Who is Better, Alistar or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Alistar into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a garbage counter for Taric. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Taric. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Taric build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Taric than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 46.9% battling Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Taric as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar vs Taric fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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