Heimerdinger vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Heimerdinger
based on 530 Heimerdinger vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Taric
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Heimerdinger against Taric counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Taric
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Taric, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger most often picks up much more CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Taric build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Taric with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taric as Heimerdinger, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Taric fights, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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