Garen vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Garen
based on 1,343 Garen vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Taric
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some vital Garen against Taric matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Taric
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Who is Better, Garen or Taric?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Taric.
Furthermore, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Garen is a terribly counter for Taric. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often gets much more CS as Taric. Champions who on average don't earn much CS 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Garen versus Taric build consist of Black Cleaver, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Taric as Garen, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Garen vs Taric face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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