Kai'Sa vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Kai'Sa
based on 1,652 Kai'Sa vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Taric
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Kai'Sa vs. Taric matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Taric
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 44.5% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Taric.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Taric during both the laning 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically gets much more CS compared to Taric. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Taric build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Taric than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.5% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Taric as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kai'Sa vs Taric counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.5% win rate overall.
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