Gwen vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Gwen
based on 780 Gwen vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Taric
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Gwen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Gwen versus Taric matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Gwen normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Taric
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Who is Better, Gwen or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gwen usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 44.6% win rate. Therefore, Gwen makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Gwen does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Gwen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gwen into Taric.
Additionally, Gwen also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gwen 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Gwen is a terribly counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gwen against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gwen
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen often accumulates much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Gwen versus Taric build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Taric than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 44.6% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Taric as Gwen, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Gwen vs Taric counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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