Taric vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Taric
based on 1,918 Taric vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Aatrox
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Taric vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Taric vs. Aatrox matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aatrox. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Aatrox. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Taric or Aatrox?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Aatrox, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter to Aatrox.
While Taric does have a higher win rate compared to Aatrox, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Aatrox.
Moreover, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Aatrox matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Aatrox. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taric to counter Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Aatrox. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Taric versus Aatrox build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Aatrox than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing against Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Aatrox as Taric, Taric players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Taric vs Aatrox matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.3% winrate overall.
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