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.
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Briar versus Taric matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Briar typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Briar does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Briar into Taric.
Furthermore, Briar has some 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Briar is a terribly counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Taric.
If you would like to truly master Briar 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Briar versus Taric build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 46.5% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Taric as Briar, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Briar vs Taric clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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