If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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 provided here underscore some vital Draven against Taric matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Draven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Draven usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Draven makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Draven does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Draven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Draven into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Draven has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Draven vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Draven is a bad counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Draven against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Draven to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven often accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Draven versus Taric build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Draven incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Draven boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Taric as Draven, Draven players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Draven vs Taric face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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