Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 on this page underscore several significant Lissandra vs. Taric counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Lissandra often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Lissandra does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Lissandra also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Taric.
Additionally, Lissandra has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra 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 allies during team fights.
Lissandra is a bad counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lissandra against Taric.
If you would like to truly master Lissandra in order to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra often picks up much more CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Taric build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Taric than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 45.7% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Taric as Lissandra, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lissandra vs Taric LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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