Taric vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Taric
based on 605 Taric vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Annie
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 Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Taric vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several vital Taric versus Annie matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Annie
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Who is Better, Taric or Annie?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Annie, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter to Annie.
While Taric does have a higher winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Annie.
Furthermore, Taric has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Annie 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 teamfights.
Taric is a good counter to Annie. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually accumulates a lot less CS as Annie. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling 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 case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taric versus Annie build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Annie than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 52.7% when playing against Annie with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Annie as Taric, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Taric vs Annie fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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