Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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 clarify some critical Corki vs. Taric counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Corki’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Corki may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Corki typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Corki usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Corki makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Corki does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Corki also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Corki into Taric.
Additionally, Corki has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Corki vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Corki is a terribly counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Corki against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Corki in order to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Corki often racks up much more CS as Taric. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Corki versus Taric build consist of Muramana, Malignance, and Eclipse. When Corki included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Corki boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Taric as Corki, Corki players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Corki vs Taric matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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