Hecarim vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Hecarim
based on 969 Hecarim vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Taric
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Hecarim vs. Taric counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Taric
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Taric?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 44.1% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Hecarim does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Taric.
Additionally, Hecarim has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim 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 team fights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter to Taric. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Hecarim versus Taric build consist of Spear of Shojin, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Taric than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 44.1% battling Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Taric as Hecarim, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Hecarim vs Taric battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.1% win rate overall.
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