Diana vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Diana
based on 1,561 Diana vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Taric
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Diana in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Diana versus Taric counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Diana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Taric
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Who is Better, Diana or Taric?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Diana does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Diana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Diana into Taric.
Additionally, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Diana 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Diana is a terribly counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana most often picks up more CS as Taric. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Diana versus Taric build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Taric than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 45.1% battling Taric with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Taric as Diana, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Diana vs Taric face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.1% win rate overall.
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