Bard vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Bard
based on 1,011 Bard vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Taric Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Taric as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Taric
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Bard versus Taric counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric..
Bard normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Taric
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Who is Better, Bard or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Taric, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter to Taric.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Taric matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is an above average counter to Taric. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Taric during both the early game 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 stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Bard versus Taric build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.2% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taric as Bard, Bard players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Bard vs Taric counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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