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 some vital Sett vs. Taric matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Sett usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sett usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Sett makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Sett does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Sett also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sett into Taric.
Moreover, Sett also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sett vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sett is a terribly counter to Taric. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sett against Taric.
If you would like to truly master Sett to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett typically picks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sett versus Taric build include Titanic Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Sett included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sett boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Taric as Sett, Sett players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sett vs Taric fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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