Rek'Sai vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Rek'Sai
based on 182 Rek'Sai vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Taric
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Rek'Sai against Taric counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Rek'Sai often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Taric
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 42.3% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower winrate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Rek'Sai also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Rek'Sai into Taric.
Moreover, Rek'Sai has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a garbage counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rek'Sai versus Taric build consist of Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Black Cleaver. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 42.3% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Taric as Rek'Sai, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Rek'Sai vs Taric LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.3% win rate overall.
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