Katarina vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Katarina
based on 1,279 Katarina vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Taric
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Katarina vs. Taric matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Taric
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Who is Better, Katarina or Taric?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Taricas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Taric build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.6% battling Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Taric as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Katarina vs Taric LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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