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 here show some critical Fiddlesticks versus Taric counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Fiddlesticks usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Fiddlesticks makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks also 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks 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 allies during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a somewhat poor counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Taric.
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Taric build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Taric than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Taric as Fiddlesticks, you should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Fiddlesticks vs Taric clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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