Taric vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Taric
based on 896 Taric vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Taric vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Taric against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Taric or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Aphelios, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a great counter for Aphelios.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Aphelios.
Moreover, Taric has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Aphelios matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taric to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Taric versus Aphelios build include Fimbulwinter, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 53.7% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Aphelios as Taric, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Taric vs Aphelios battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Taric are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.