Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Kayle versus Taric matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kayle usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when playing against Taric, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Taricas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle usually gets much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kayle versus Taric build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Taric than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Taric with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Taric as Kayle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kayle vs Taric counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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